装

装 · zhuāng

dress, clothes, attire; fill

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Meanings & readings

Meaning & readings

dress, clothes, attire; fill

Mandarin
zhuāng
Cantonese
zong1

Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.

Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese

Readings recorded for 装 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.

Japanese 日本語

Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.

On’yomi · katakana

ソウショウ

Kun’yomi · hiragana

よそおう

Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.

Source record & scope

Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property

ソウ ショウ よそおう

Korean 한국어

Hanja readings · Hangul

장

Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.

Reading sources explained
장
KS X 1002 (1)
Source record & scope

Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kHangul ↗ · provisional property

장:1

Vietnamese Tiếng Việt

Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.

Form & structure

Writing & identity

Unicode
U+88C5
Radical
衣 · 145
Strokes
12 · Unihan
Residual
6

Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.

Stroke order

12 strokes
装
Strokes
12
Convention
PRC · Make Me a Hanzi

12 strokes in writing order. Play to watch them, or Step through one at a time.

Modern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.

Graphical structure

⿱壮衣(GHJKP)
How to read these symbols

⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.

BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.

Words & connections

Words using 装

Character connections

No reverse component match in this collection.

History & distinctions

Related forms

裝

Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.

Sources & reference

Evidence & next depth

Source editions & exact scope ↗
Retained Unihan properties
kMandarin
zhuāng
kCantonese
zong1
kDefinition
dress, clothes, attire; fill
kTotalStrokes
12
kRSUnicode
145.6
kTraditionalVariant
U+88DD
kTGH
2013:2726

Readings across dictionaries

Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
zhuāng 1521.100
Small numbers locate dictionary entries; 粵 introduces Cantonese. Includes rare or historical readings. Source notation ↗

Reference desk

Sentences in context

Find examples using 装 ↗

The attributed sentence collection is still small; this spelling has no retained example yet.

Study this character

Structure & connections

0.10
222dictionary records using 装0forms using this shape0attributed sound links
⿱ Above / below

Shape description
壮 above 衣 · the shape used in China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, North Korea
Source notation ^⿱壮衣$(GHJKP)
BabelStone · 2025-06-27. Encoded shape and region tags; graphical analysis does not establish historical function.

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Retained descriptions & scope

^⿱壮衣$(GHJKP)

All alternatives are retained. Only the first description drives component search and graphical links. Counts describe this snapshot, not frequency. Evidence and method.