贊

See also 賛, and 赞

Translingual

shinjitai	賛
simplified	赞
traditional	贊

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 兟 + 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

• 讚, 鑽, 攢, 纘, 瓚, 臢, 趲, 躦

Descendants

• 賛, 赞

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

贊 (simplified 赞, Yale jaan3)

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Japanese

Kanji

贊

Readings

• On: さん (san)
• Kun: たすける (tasukeru), たたえる (tataeru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

贊 (simplified 赞, pinyin dàn (dan4), zàn (zan4), Wade-Giles tan⁴, tsan⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

贊 (tán)