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藏

Mandarin · pinyin cáng#

to conceal
to hide away
to harbor
to store
to collect

Mandarin · pinyin zàng#

storehouse
depository
Buddhist or Taoist scripture

Mandarin · pinyin Zàng#

Tibetan ethnic group
Tibet Autonomous Region (short name for 西藏自治區 Xī zàng Zì zhì qū)

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藏: cáng · hide, conceal; hoard, store up

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2 · cang2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

cong4 · zong1 · zong6

Cantonese word readings for 藏. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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character · Etymology 1

(transitive) to hide; to conceal
(intransitive) to hide
to store; to lay
a surname

character · Etymology 2

depository, repository; storage, treasury
Buddhist or Taoist scriptures
original form of 臟／脏 (zàng, “internal organs”)
(literary) to bury
(literary) burial ground

character · Etymology 2

(Taoism) a cylindrical model of a prayer wheel used in certain Hokkien funeral rites

character · Etymology 3

Tibetan (people)
(abbreviation, alt-of) short for 西藏 (Xīzàng, “Tibet”)

character · Etymology 4

(Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) to stuff; to cram; to squeeze into
(Zhangzhou, Kinmenese and Taiwanese Hokkien, Zhao'an Hakka) to hide

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