• 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)

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)

감출
gamchul
jang
Kangxi radical:140, + 14
Strokes:17
Unicode:U+85CF
Cangjie input:
  • 廿戈一尸 (TIMS)
Composition:
  • ⿱ 艹 臧

Neighboring characters in the dictionary

References

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