zàng
bury
Depicts burying a dead body (死) beneath the grass (茻).
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]ˤaŋ-s | tsangH | zàng | bury |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 16.4664% of movies
1503rd most common character in movies
2060th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+846C |
Shuowen | “葬,藏也。从死在茻中。一其中,所以薦之。《易》曰:‘古之葬者,厚衣之以薪。’” |
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