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贊

贊

See also: 賛 and 赞

Translingual

Traditional 贊
Shinjitai 賛
Simplified 赞

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (贊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
贊 *ʔsaːns
趲 *ʔsaːns, *zaːnʔ
讚 *ʔsaːns
酇 *ʔsaːns, *zoːn
饡 *ʔsaːns
濽 *ʔsaːns
襸 *ʔsaːns
攢 *ʔsaːns, *ʔsoːnʔ
瓚 *zaːnʔ
禶 *zaːnʔ, *zoːn
穳 *zaːns, *zoːn
囋 *zaːns, *zaːd
鑽 *ʔsoːn, *ʔsoːns
劗 *ʔsoːn, *zoːn
纘 *ʔsoːnʔ
儧 *ʔsoːnʔ
鄼 *ʔsoːnʔ
欑 *ʔsoːnʔ, *zoːn
籫 *ʔsoːnʔ
巑 *zoːn
攅 *zoːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔsaːns) : phonetic 兟 ‎(OC *srin) + semantic 貝 ‎(“money”) – to help with money.

Han character

贊 (radical 154 貝+12, 19 strokes, cangjie input 竹山月山金 (HUBUC), four-corner 24806, composition ⿱兟貝)

  1. to help, to support, to assist, to aid

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 1212, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36935
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1678, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3657, character 21
  • Unihan data for U+8D0A

Chinese

trad. 贊
simp. 赞

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 贊
Mandarin Beijing /t͡san⁵¹/
Harbin /t͡san⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡san⁵³/
Jinan /t͡sã²¹/
Qingdao /t͡sã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡san³¹²/
/t͡suan³¹²/
Xi'an /t͡sã⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡sã²¹³/
Yinchuan /t͡san¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡sɛ̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡san²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡san³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡san¹³/
Guiyang /t͡san²¹³/
Kunming /t͡sã̠²¹²/
Nanjing /t͡saŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /t͡sæ̃⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sæ̃⁴⁵/
Pingyao /t͡sɑŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡sæ̃⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /t͡se³⁵/
Suzhou /t͡se̞⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /t͡sẽ̞⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡sa⁴²/
Hui Shexian /t͡sɛ³²⁴/
Tunxi /t͡sɔ⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /t͡san⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /t͡san⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /t͡san⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /t͡san⁵³/
Taoyuan /t͡sɑn⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡san³³/
Nanning /t͡san³³/
Hong Kong /t͡san³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡san²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sɑŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡suiŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡saŋ²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡saŋ³⁵/
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 贊
Reading # 1/1
No. 16514
Phonetic
component		 贊
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 賛
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsaːns/

Definitions

贊

  1. to help; to support
  2. to agree
Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 贊 – see 讚.
(This character, 贊, is a variant form of 讚.)

Japanese

Kanji

贊

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 賛)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

贊 • ‎(chan) (hangeul 찬, revised chan, McCune-Reischauer ch'an, Yale chan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

贊 (tán)

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