Chinese Character Wiki
葬

zàng

bury

Depicts burying a dead body (死) beneath the grass (茻).

Components
茻 iconic component

茻  Iconic component

mǎng

  

vegetation, overgrown weeds

Bottom part looks like unrelated 廾.

死 iconic component

死  Iconic component

sǐ

  

die

Used here to depict a dead body.

Evolution

葬 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
葬 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
葬 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
葬 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
葬 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

葬  

zàng

bury, inter; to bury (the dead); to inter

葬 (塟) 

zàng

old variant of 葬[zàng]

Most common words with 葬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

葬礼

burial

埋葬

to bury

葬

to inter

安葬

to bury (the dead)

墓葬

tomb

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

髒

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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