# 璋

| 璋 | U+748B, &#29835; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-748B |
| ← 璊 [U+748A] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 璌 → [U+748C] |

## Translingual
### Han character

璋 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一土卜廿十 (MGYTJ), four-corner 1014$_6$, composition ⿰𤣩章)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 741, character 13
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21211
* Dae Jaweon: page 1150, character 30
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1135, character 17
* Unihan data for U+748B

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 璋 :
| Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 章 | *kjaŋ |
| 樟 | *kjaŋ |
| 彰 | *kjaŋ |
| 漳 | *kjaŋ |
| 鄣 | *kjaŋ |
| 璋 | *kjaŋ |
| 嫜 | *kjaŋ |
| 獐 | *kjaŋ |
| 慞 | *kjaŋ |
| 墇 | *kjaŋ, *kjaŋs |
| 障 | *kjaŋ, *kjaŋs |
| 麞 | *kjaŋ |
| 蔁 | *kjaŋ |
| 暲 | *kjaŋ |
| 嶂 | *kjaŋs |
| 瘴 | *kjaŋs |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zhāng (zhang$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄓㄤ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zoeng$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zhāng
*** Zhuyin: ㄓㄤ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jhang
*** Wade–Giles: chang$^1$
*** Yale: jāng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jang
*** Palladius: чжан (čžan)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂɑŋ⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zoeng$^1$
*** Yale: jēung
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzoeng$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: zêng$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sœːŋ⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: tsyang
Rime :
| Character | 璋 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 章 (23) |
| Final (韻) | 陽 (105) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 諸良切 |
| Baxter | tsyang |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡ɕɨɐŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡ɕiɐŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡ɕiɑŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /cɨaŋ/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡ɕiaŋ/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡ɕĭaŋ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /t͡ɕi̯aŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zhāng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zoeng$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*taŋ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kjaŋ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 璋 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | zhāng |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ tsyang › |
| Old Chinese | /*taŋ/ |
| English | (jade) insignium |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 璋 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 16822 |
| Phonetic component | 章 |
| Rime group | 陽 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 章 |
| Old Chinese | /*kjaŋ/ |

### Definitions

璋
* a small jade ornament that can be hung at the waist or on other items such as fans, swords, or even lanterns
* jade plaything

#### Compounds

* 圭璋 (guīzhāng)
* 弄璋 (nòngzhāng)
* 弄璋之喜 (nòngzhāngzhīxǐ)
* 弄璋之慶／弄璋之庆
* 朱元璋
* 珪璋
* 珪璋特達／珪璋特达
* 璋瓚／璋瓒

### References

* “璋”, 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–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): しょう (shō)
* Kun: ひしゃく (hishaku)、たま (tama)、あらわす (arawasu)
* Nanori: あき (aki)、てる (teru)

## Korean
### Hanja

璋 • (jang) (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune–Reischauer chang, Yale cang)
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