滄

滄 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水人戈口 (EOIR), four-corner 3816₇, composition ⿰氵倉)

• KangXi: page 641, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18007
• Dae Jaweon: page 1049, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1703, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6EC4

Historical forms of the character 滄
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sʰaːŋ, *sʰraŋs) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 倉 (OC *sʰaːŋ).

滄

1. (literary) blue; dark green (of water)
2. (literary) vast (of water)
3. (literary) cold; cool

   alt. forms: 凔

4. Alternative form of 蒼／苍 (cāng, “grey”).

• “滄”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• Go-on: そう (sō)
• Kan-on: そう (sō)
• Kun: ひろい (hiroi), さむい (samui)

• 滄海
• 滄溟
• 滄浪

滄 • (chang) (hangeul 창, revised chang, McCune–Reischauer ch'ang, Yale chang)

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滄: Hán Nôm readings: thương

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