庄

See also: 莊, 圧, and 庒

庄 U+5E84, 庄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E84 ← 広 [U+5E83] CJK Unified Ideographs 庅 → [U+5E85]

Translingual

Stroke order

Traditional	莊
Shinjitai	荘
Simplified	庄

Han character

庄 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 戈土 (IG), four-corner 0021₄, composition ⿸广土)

Derived characters

• 㛇 䂯 粧 賍(赃) 𠲕 𪣐 𣆮 𤕸 𥅾 𦀐 𨀵 𬵐 𪁈(𪉉) 𫇺
• 桩 (Simplified form of 樁)
• 脏 (Simplified form of 臟 and 髒)
• 𢬂 (Second-round simplified form of 撞)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 343, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9234
• Dae Jaweon: page 653, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 873, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5E84

Chinese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 庄 – see 莊 (“grassy; village; farmstead; hamlet; etc.”). (This character is the simplified form of 莊).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 庄 – see 廡 (“A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a yard and supported by columns on the other side”). (This character is a variant form of 廡).

Compounds

• 南庄 (Nánzhuāng)

 

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): péng (peng²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄥˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: péng
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: péng
    • Wade–Giles: pʻêng²
    • Yale: péng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: perng
    • Palladius: пэн (pɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɤŋ³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: beang

Rime
Character	庄
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	耕 (117)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	薄萌切
Baxter	beang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bˠɛŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/bᵚæŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/bɐŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bəɨjŋ/
Li Rong	/bɛŋ/
Wang Li	/bæŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱæŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	péng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	pang4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*breːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	庄
Reading #	1/1
No.	9657
Phonetic component	庄
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	輣
Old Chinese	/*breːŋ/

Definitions

庄

1. flat

Japanese

Kanji

庄

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: ほう (hō)
• Kun: いなか (inaka, 庄); むらざと (murazato, 庄)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
庄
しょう Jinmeiyō
goon

Proper noun

庄(しょう) • (Shō) 

1. a male given name

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
庄
しょう Jinmeiyō
goon

For pronunciation and definitions of 庄 – see the following entry.

【荘しょう】S [suffix] manor

(This term, 庄, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

庄 • (jang) (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune–Reischauer chang)

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