Chinese

髒

zāng
dirty; filthy; soiled; foul
  • Phono-semantic compound 形聲
  • HSK 2
  • TOCFL 4
  • radical 骨
  • 23 strokes

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Origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔsaːŋʔ): semantic 骨 (“bone”) + phonetic 葬 (OC *ʔsaːŋs).

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Lineage

  • meaningChinese骨 “bone”
    • soundChinese冎 “bone”
    • meaningChinese肉 “meat; flesh”
  • soundChinese葬 “to bury (the dead); to inter”
    • ideaChinese茻 “multitude of grass”
    • componentChinese艸 “grass”
    • ideaChinese死 “to die”
      • meaningChinese歹 “bone remnants”
      • soundChinese尸 “a living person who represents the dead person during a rite”
    • componentChinese廾 “both hands”

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