藏
zàng
#905 most
frequent character
storehouse, depository
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
藏 pairs 艹 vegetation with 臧 cáng, which gives the sound. Its first sense was a kind of plant. The cáng reading later borrowed the sound for storing and hiding. The zàng reading borrowed the sound for a storehouse and for short 西藏 Tibet.
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