牆

牆 U+7246, 牆 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7246 ← 牅 [U+7245] CJK Unified Ideographs 片 → [U+7247]

牆 (Kangxi radical 90, 爿+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 女一土人田 (VMGOW), four-corner 2426₁, composition ⿰爿嗇)

• 蘠

• 墻 (Variant form)
• 墙 (Simplified Chinese)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 692, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19806
• Dae Jaweon: page 1105, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2378, character 22
• Unihan data for U+7246

trad.		牆/墻
simp.		墙
2nd round simp.		垟
alternative forms		廧／𪪞 𤖧 𤖣 𤖠 𢉈

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *zaŋ) : phonetic 爿 (OC *braːn, *zaŋ) + semantic 嗇 (“wheat in a granary”).

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牆

1. wall (Classifier: 面 m; 堵 m mn; 埲 c; 幅 c)

   城牆／城墙  ―  chéngqiáng  ―  city wall

   石牆／石墙  ―  shíqiáng  ―  stone wall

   高牆／高墙  ―  gāoqiáng  ―  high wall

   翻牆／翻墙  ―  fānqiáng  ―  to scale a wall

   柏林牆／柏林墙  ―  Bǎilínqiáng  ―  Berlin Wall

   牆上有張地圖。／墙上有张地图。  ―  Qiáng shàng yǒu zhāng dìtú.  ―  There is a map on the wall.

2. (Mainland China, Internet slang) Great Firewall

   翻牆／翻墙  ―  fānqiáng  ―  to circumvent the Great Firewall

   兩會期間牆高了，我的節點失效了。 [MSC, trad.]
   两会期间墙高了，我的节点失效了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Liǎnghuì qījiān qiáng gāo le, wǒ de jiédiǎn shīxiào le. [Pinyin]

   The Great Firewall becomes higher during the Two Sessions. My proxy is not working.

3. (Mainland China, Internet slang, usually passive) (the Great Firewall) to censor; to block (a website)

   AO3被牆了。／AO3被墙了。  ―  AO3 bèi qiáng le.  ―  AO3 is blocked by the Great Firewall.

   • 2021 February 18, “Clubhouse 無言論審查 遭北京封殺”, in 看中國 [Vision Times]‎^[1], Western Canada edition, number 720, page A3:

     對此，網友紛紛在微博表示，「剛火兩天就被牆了」、「突然就SSL error了」、「登不進去了，慶幸及時體驗了一把，感受到了那份久違的秩序感、互聯網禮儀」。 [MSC, trad.]
     对此，网友纷纷在微博表示，「刚火两天就被墙了」、「突然就SSL error了」、「登不进去了，庆幸及时体验了一把，感受到了那份久违的秩序感、互联网礼仪」。 [MSC, simp.]

     Duì cǐ, wǎngyǒu fēnfēn zài Wēibó biǎoshì, “gāng huǒ liǎng tiān jiù bèi qiáng le”, “tūrán jiù SSL error le”, “dēng bù jìnqù le, qìngxìng jíshí tǐyànle yī bǎ, gǎnshòu dàole nà fèn jiǔwéi de zhìxùgǎn, hùliánwǎng lǐyí”. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• (wall):

• → Lü: ᦌᧂᧉ (sang²)
• → Zhuang: ciengz

• “牆”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: ぞう (zō)^{←ざう (zau, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kun: かき (kaki, 牆)

• 垣牆(えんしょう) (enshō)
• 牆壁(しょうへき) (shōheki)

牆 • (jang) (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune–Reischauer chang, Yale cang)

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牆: Hán Nôm readings: tường

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• Nôm: tường

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999