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)		地	藏
simp. #(地藏)		地	藏
anagram		藏地

Etymology

“Ksitigarbha”

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dìzàng

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˋ ㄗㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dei⁶ zong⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dìzàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˋ ㄗㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dìzàng
    • Wade–Giles: ti⁴-tsang⁴
    • Yale: dì-dzàng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dihtzanq
    • Palladius: дицзан (diczan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡sɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dei⁶ zong⁶
    • Yale: deih johng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dei⁶ dzong⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: déi⁶ zong⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tei̯²² t͡sɔːŋ²²/

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• Middle Chinese: dijH dzangH

Rime
Character	地	藏
Reading #	1/1	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)	唐 (101)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	徒四切	徂浪切
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	dì	zàng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dei6	zong6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[l]ˤej-s  m-tsʰˤaŋ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'els  zaːŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	地	藏
Reading #	1/1	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dì	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	地	藏
Reading #	1/1	2/2
No.	14808	10284
Phonetic component	也	爿
Rime group	歌	陽
Rime subdivision	2	0
Corresponding MC rime	地	藏
Old Chinese	/*l'els/	/*zaːŋs/

Noun

地藏

1. (Classical) cellar

Synonyms

• 地窖 (dìjiào)
• 地窨 (dìyìn)
• 地窨子 (dìyìnzi) (colloquial)
• 地陷 (tē-hām) (Hokkien)
• 地陷跤 (tē-hām-kha) (Xiamen Hokkien)
• 窖 (jiào)

 

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

• 地藏寺
• 地藏王
• 地藏王菩薩／地藏王菩萨 (Dìzàngwáng Púsà)
• 地藏經／地藏经 (Dìzàngjīng)
• 地藏菩薩／地藏菩萨 (Dìzàng Púsà)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (地藏):

• → Japanese: 地(じ)蔵(ぞう) (Jizō)

Further reading

• Ding, Fubao (丁福保) (1922), “地藏” in 佛學大辭典 [A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms].

Japanese

Kanji in this term
地	藏
じ 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.)