地藏

See also: 地蔵

Chinese

 
earth; ground; field
earth; ground; field; place; land; (subor. part. adverbial); ‑ly
 
storehouse; depository; Buddhist or Taoist scripture
storehouse; depository; Buddhist or Taoist scripture; Zang; Tibet; to hide away; to conceal; to harbor; store; accumulate
trad. (地藏)
simp. #(地藏)
anagram 藏地

Etymology

“Ksitigarbha”
Calque of Sanskrit क्षितिगर्भ (Kṣitigarbha, literally earth womb), from क्षिति (kṣiti, earth) + गर्भ (garbha, womb).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 2/2
Initial () (7) (15)
Final () (15) (101)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Baxter dijH dzangH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/diɪH/ /d͡zɑŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/diH/ /d͡zɑŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/djɪH/ /d͡zɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/diH/ /d͡zaŋH/
Li
Rong
/diH/ /d͡zɑŋH/
Wang
Li
/diH/ /d͡zɑŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱiH/ /d͡zʱɑŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zàng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
dei6 zong6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zàng
Middle
Chinese
‹ dijH › ‹ dzangH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[l]ˁej-s/ /*m-tsʰˁaŋ-s/
English earth, ground store, repository (n.)

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
Reading # 1/1 2/2
No. 14808 10284
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l'els/ /*zaːŋs/

Noun

地藏

  1. (Classical) cellar

Synonyms

Verb

地藏

  1. (Classical) to bury (the dead) in the ground

Proper noun

地藏

  1. (Buddhism) (~菩薩) Ksitigarbha bodhisattva
    Synonym: 乞叉底蘗婆

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (地藏):
  • Japanese: ()(ぞう) (Jizō)

Further reading

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2
ぞう
Jinmeiyō
on’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 地藏 – see the following entry.
地蔵じぞう
[proper noun] (Buddhism) Short for 地蔵菩薩 (Jizō Bosatsu): Ksitigarbha, the bodhisattva who looks over children, pregnant women, travelers, and the underworld
(This term, 地藏, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)
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