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漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food

蔵: storehouse, hide

Also: own, have, possess

JLPT N215 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met

艹 carries the meaning · 臧 gives the sound

15 strokes
  • Bronze · Warring States
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

ゾウzou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 蔵書ぞうしょbook collection
  • 蔵相ぞうしょうMinister of Finance
  • 所蔵しょぞう(in one's) possession
  • 冷蔵庫れいぞうこrefrigerator
  • 秘蔵するひぞうするtreasure [v.t.]
  • 貯蔵するちょぞうするstore, preserve

くらkura · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 蔵くらwarehouse
  • 大蔵省おおくらしょうMinistry of Finance
  • 米蔵こめぐらrice granary

Also read ソウ, おさめる, かくれる, 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)艸 grass (meaning) + 臧 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 藏 (rev. 93448463), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Grass growing on top! Like a green crown upon the earth, this radical sits above kanji related to flowers, herbs, and vegetation.”
More in the 艹 grass story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
艹

Also built on grass (艹)

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蔵 gives its sound to

The family reading is ゾウ (zou). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read ゾウ

11 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read ソウ

56 kanji share this on'yomiAll 56
In ChineseA Japanese form · Chinese writes 藏 · cáng

蔵 is a Japanese simplification. Chinese writes 藏 in both simplified and traditional script.

Simplified
藏 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
藏 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin cáng 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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