藏品

• Pinyin: cáng pǐn
• Hanzi breakdown: 藏 = 艹 (grass) + 臧 (phonetic); 品 = three 口 (mouth) stacked — symbolising multiple items or grades

Meaning

Collection item; artefact in a collection. The objects held in a museum, gallery, or private collection.

A formal term used primarily in museum, gallery, and auction contexts. Can refer to a single piece or the collection as a whole. More specific than 收藏品, which also covers personal hobby collecting.

Examples

1. 这家博物馆馆藏丰富，拥有超过两万件珍贵藏品。 This museum has a rich collection, holding more than twenty thousand precious artefacts.
2. 为保护珍贵藏品，展厅内严格控制温度和湿度，并禁止拍照。 To protect the valuable collection items, the gallery strictly controls temperature and humidity and prohibits photography.
3. 这件青铜器是该博物馆镇馆之宝，被列为国家一级藏品。 This bronze vessel is the museum's prized centrepiece and is classified as a national Grade-One collection item.

Usage Guide

Context: museum, art, culture, auction, heritage

Tone: neutral

Do Say

• 故宫博物院的藏品多达一百八十余万件，是世界上收藏中国文物最多的博物馆之一。(The Palace Museum holds over 1.8 million collection items, making it one of the world's largest repositories of Chinese cultural artefacts.)
• 这次展览特别展出了几件从未公开亮相的珍稀藏品，吸引了大批观众前来参观。(This exhibition specially featured several rare collection pieces never before shown publicly, drawing large crowds.)

Don't Say

• 我的书架上有很多藏品。(藏品 usually refers to artefacts in an institutional or serious collector's context; for casual personal collections use 收藏 or 收藏品)

Origin & History

藏 (to store, collection) + 品 (item, article). Together: an item stored in a collection.

Cultural Context

Generation: All ages

Social background: Universal