珍藏
zhēn cáng · HSK 7
collection
💎🗄️ 珍 precious + 藏 to store away = valuables kept safe; a treasured collection
珍 (zhēn) means precious or treasure; 藏 (cáng) means to store or hide away. Together: prized things tucked safely out of sight, a hoard worth keeping. 藏 also reads zàng in 西藏 Tibet, but here the verb sense store is cáng.
藏 — grass radical 艹 + 臧 (phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The grass radical 艹 on top suggests plants or vegetation used for concealment, while 臧 below provides the sound. Originally meant to hide or conceal something in the grass, later extended to mean 'store' or 'collect,' and when read 'zàng' it means a treasury or storehouse.