臧

Glyph origin
– "slave; prisoner of war" (slaves in ancient China were blinded, hence the component. Compare  and ). The phonetic component, absent in the oracle-bone script, was added at a later stage (see , and references therein), leading  to interpret the character as a.

Etymology 1

 * cognate with 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1)  good; right; generous
 * 2)  to praise; to commend
 * 1)  to praise; to commend

Definitions

 * 1)   slave; enslaved captive