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臧
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- 臧
- zāng · good, right, generous; command
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Mandarin tones
1 · zang1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
cong4 · zong1 · zong6
Cantonese word readings for 臧. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- (literary) good; right; generous
- (literary) to praise; to commend
- a surname
character · Etymology 2
- (literary, obsolete, derogatory) slave; enslaved captive
- (literary, obsolete) alternative form of 贓 /赃 (zāng, “booty; loot; stolen goods”)
character · Etymology 3
- (alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 藏 (“to hide; to store”)
character · Etymology 4
- (obsolete) alternative form of 藏 (zàng, “storing place; depository”)
- (obsolete) alternative form of 臟 /脏 (zàng, “internal organs, viscera”)
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