瘴

瘴 U+7634, 瘴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7634 ← 瘳 [U+7633] CJK Unified Ideographs 瘵 → [U+7635]

Translingual

Han character

瘴 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 大卜廿十 (KYTJ), four-corner 0014₆, composition ⿸疒章)

1. malaria; pestilential vapors

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 779, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22455
• Dae Jaweon: page 1189, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2694, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7634

Chinese

simp. and trad.		瘴

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (章) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
章	*kjaŋ
樟	*kjaŋ
彰	*kjaŋ
漳	*kjaŋ
鄣	*kjaŋ
璋	*kjaŋ
嫜	*kjaŋ
獐	*kjaŋ
慞	*kjaŋ
墇	*kjaŋ, *kjaŋs
障	*kjaŋ, *kjaŋs
麞	*kjaŋ
蔁	*kjaŋ
暲	*kjaŋ
嶂	*kjaŋs
瘴	*kjaŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kjaŋs) : semantic 疒 (“illness”) + phonetic 章 (OC *kjaŋ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhàng (zhang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zoeng³
• Eastern Min (BUC): cióng
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiòng / chiàng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhàng
    • Wade–Giles: chang⁴
    • Yale: jàng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: janq
    • Palladius: чжан (čžan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zoeng³
    • Yale: jeung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoeng³
    • Guangdong Romanization: zêng³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sœːŋ³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: cióng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡suɔŋ²¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiòng
    • Tâi-lô: tsiòng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cioxng
    • IPA (Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /t͡siɔŋ²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡siɔŋ¹¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siɔŋ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiàng
    • Tâi-lô: tsiàng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciaxng
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siaŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyangH

Rime
Character	瘴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	之亮切
Baxter	tsyangH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨɐŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɐŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiɑŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cɨaŋH/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiaŋH/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭaŋH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯aŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhàng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zoeng3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kjaŋs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	瘴
Reading #	1/1
No.	16833
Phonetic component	章
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	障
Old Chinese	/*kjaŋs/

Definitions

瘴

1. miasma; noxious vapours arising from a swamp

Compounds

• 毒瘴
• 烏煙瘴氣 / 乌烟瘴气 (wūyānzhàngqì)
• 瘴氣 / 瘴气 (zhàngqì)
• 瘴疫
• 瘴癘 / 瘴疠 (zhànglì)
• 發瘴 / 发瘴 (Hakka)
• 豬頭瘴 / 猪头瘴 (dṳ̆-tàu-cióng) (Eastern Min)

Japanese

Kanji

瘴

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. Miasma, toxic air or gasses.

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō)
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)

Korean

Hanja

瘴 • (jang) (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune–Reischauer chang, Yale cang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

瘴: Hán Nôm readings: chướng

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