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

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

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	‹ dij^H ›	‹ dzang^H ›
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.

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Sino-Xenic (地藏):

For pronunciation and definitions of 地藏 – see the following entry.

[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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