Memory phrase for the Kanji: 藏

藏

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Meaning to hide away, to conceal, to harbor, depository

Pronunciation

cáng, zàng

Explanation

Top: plant 艹, below: 臧 (fragment 爿, official 臣, halberd 戈)

Mnemonic
 
The plant is the fragment that the official with the halberd is hiding away.

Radicals

艹 grass, plant
丬 bedSimplification of fragment: 爿 which shows a tree split lengthwise. (片 is the other half) - Not at least because of its use with these characters 寐,寝 for 'sleep', it got the meaning of "bed".
臣 minister
戈 halberd
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 Vocabulary

 西藏  Xī zàng  Tibet; Xizang or Tibetan autonomous region
 藏羚羊  cáng líng yáng  Tibetan antelope or Chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii)
 苞藏祸心  bāo cáng huò xīn  to harbor evil intentions (idiom); concealing malice
 滇藏  Diān Zàng  Yunnan and Tibet
 滇，藏，川  Diān , Zàng , Chuān  Yunnan, Tibet and Sichuan
 滇，藏，川  Diān , Zàng , Chuān  
 藏匿  cáng nì  to cover up; to conceal; to go into hiding
 蕴藏量  yùn cáng liàng  reserves; amount still in store
 蕴藏  yùn cáng  to hold in store; to contain (untapped reserves etc)
 鸟尽弓藏  niǎo jìn gōng cáng  lit. the birds are over, the bow is put away (idiom); fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose
 躲藏  duǒ cáng  to hide oneself
 躲藏  duǒ cáng  

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