藏
- to hide, to conceal;
- to store, to preserve;
- a repository, treasury, storehouse;
Etymology
A phono-semantic compound:
艸 (“grass, plant”) — semantic element.
臧 (jang / cáng / zàng, “good, virtuous”) — phonetic element, providing the sound.
Original sense: to store plants/herbs, hence “to store, to preserve.”
Usage in Korean
隱藏 (은장) — to conceal, to hide
收藏 (수장) — to collect, to store up
儲藏 (저장) — storage, to store
寶藏 (보장) — treasure, treasury
西藏 (서장) — Tibet
大藏經 (대장경) — the Buddhist canon
臟腑 (장부) — internal organs (variant form 臟)
Words that derived from 藏
Additional notes
As a Buddhist technical term, 藏 (canon) is one of the Three Baskets (三藏):
經藏 (Sūtra-piṭaka)
律藏 (Vinaya-piṭaka)
論藏 (Abhidharma-piṭaka)
藏
감출
장
gamchul
jang
Kangxi radical:140, 艸 + 14
Strokes:17
Unicode:U+85CF
Cangjie input:
- 廿戈一尸 (TIMS)
Composition:
- ⿱ 艹 臧