藏 — Chinese character
藏
cáng
to conceal, to hide; to hoard, to store
- Pinyin
- cáng
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 18
- Components
- 艹 臧
- Formation
- pictophonetic — grass; meaning component 艹; sound component 臧
- Japanese
- 藏 as a kanji
Common words with 藏
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 隐藏 (隱藏) | yǐn cáng | to hide; to conceal |
| 收藏 | shōu cáng | to collect (works of art, dolls, antiques etc); to put away for safekeeping; (Internet) to bookmark; a collection |
| 宝藏 (寶藏) | bǎo zàng | precious mineral deposits; hidden treasure |
| 藏书 (藏書) | cáng shū | to collect books; library collection |
| 蕴藏 (蘊藏) | yùn cáng | to hold in store; to contain (untapped reserves etc) |
| 珍藏 | zhēn cáng | a collection of rare and valuable items; to collect (such items) |
| 躲藏 | duǒ cáng | to conceal oneself; to go into hiding |
| 藏身 | cáng shēn | to hide; to go into hiding |
| 馆藏 (館藏) | guǎn cáng | to collect in a museum or library; museum collection |
| 矿藏 (礦藏) | kuàng cáng | mineral resources |
| 埋藏 | mái cáng | to bury; to hide by burying |
| 藏品 | cáng pǐn | museum piece; collector's item |
English words written with 藏
藏 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 1 · Analects 3 · Art of War 2 · Mencius 3 · Zhuangzi 35 · Great Learning 1 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 44
- Analects 5.17
- Analects 7.10
- Analects 9.12
- Art of War 4.7
- Art of War 9.17
- Mencius 1A.7
- Mencius 2A.5
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.