瘴
瘴 — jang
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 장기 장
- Romanization
- jang
- English
- malaria pestilential vapors
- Mandarin
- zhàng
- Japanese on'yomi
- ショウ
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 疒 (104, 11 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 章(장)
- Unicode
- U+7634
Parts that make up 瘴
- 疒 병상에 기댄 사람병과 아픔
- 章 글 장sound 다듬지 않은 옥을 끌로 꿰뚫은 모양글월. ‘장’ 계열의 소리
How 瘴 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 瘴 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 疒, 章.
Japanese words with 瘴
- 瘴気しょうき miasma ("bad air" formerly believed to cause disease)
- 瘴癘しょうれい tropical disease (e.g. malaria)
Characters sharing the phonetic 章
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “장” in Korean.
Other hanja read “장”
Other hanja with radical 疒
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