Memory phrase for the character: 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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