Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

臓: entrails, viscera

Also: bowels

JLPT N219 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met

月 carries the meaning · 蔵 gives the sound

19 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ゾウzou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 臓器ぞうきviscera, internal organs
  • 臓物ぞうもつentrails, giblets
  • 内臓ないぞうinternal organs, intestines
  • 心臓しんぞうheart
  • 肝臓かんぞうliver
  • 腎臓じんぞうkidney
  • 五臓六腑ごぞうろっぷthe internal organs

Also read はらわた, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)肉 flesh, as ⺼ (meaning) + 藏 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 臟 (rev. 93386039), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Flesh (月) + storage/hide (蔵). The "flesh" that is hidden and "stored" safely inside your body—your vital internal organs.”
From the 月 meat story
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Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
月

Also built on meat (月)

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Also read ゾウ

11 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSimplified 脏 · traditional 臟 · zàng

Three different forms: Japanese 臓, simplified 脏, traditional 臟.

Simplified
脏 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
臟 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin zàng most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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