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贊

See also: 賛, 赞, and 讚
贊 U+8D0A, 贊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8D0A
← 贉
[U+8D09] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 贋 →
[U+8D0B]

Translingual

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Traditional 贊
Shinjitai 賛
Simplified 赞

Han character

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

Derived characters

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See also

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References

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

Chinese

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trad. 贊
simp. 赞*
2nd round simp. 𰷣
alternative forms 賛／赞

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 贊
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
   
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

Originally 賛. Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 㚘 + 貝 (“money”) – to help with money.

Now phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsaːns) : phonetic 兟 (OC *srin) + semantic 貝 (“money”).

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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  • 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 (Hokkien) /t͡san²¹/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /t͡sɑŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /t͡suiŋ³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /t͡saŋ²¹³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /t͡saŋ³⁵/
Rime
Character 贊
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 寒 (61)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 則旰切
Baxter tsanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡sɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡sɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡sɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡sanH/
Li
Rong 		/t͡sɑnH/
Wang
Li 		/t͡sɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡sɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zaan3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 贊
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zàn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsanH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*tsˁarʔ-s/
English assist

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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

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贊

  1. to help; to support
    翼贊／翼赞  ―  yìzàn  ―  to assist
  2. to agree
    贊同／赞同  ―  zàntóng  ―  to agree
  3. (literature) a form and style of writing that summarizes and concludes a narrative, biography, or portrait, etc.

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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For pronunciation and definitions of 贊 – see 讚 (“to praise; to commend; to eulogize; to like; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 讚).

Etymology 3

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trad. 贊
simp. 赞*
alternative forms 赠
助

Pronunciation

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  • 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 (Hokkien) /t͡san²¹/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /t͡sɑŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /t͡suiŋ³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /t͡saŋ²¹³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /t͡saŋ³⁵/
  1. to help; to support

Synonyms

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Dialectal synonyms of 幫忙 (“to help; to lend a hand”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 幫忙
Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 幫忙兒
Taiwan 幫忙
Malaysia 幫忙
Singapore 幫忙
Central Plains Mandarin Luoyang 幫忙
Wanrong 幫忙
Xi'an 幫忙
Southwestern Mandarin Guilin 幫忙
Liuzhou 幫手
Cantonese Guangzhou 幫手
Hong Kong 幫手
Macau 幫手
Taishan 幫手
Yangjiang 幫手
Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) 幫手
Singapore (Guangfu) 幫手
Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu) 幫手
Gan Nanchang 幫忙
Lichuan 幫忙
Hakka Meixian 𢯭手, 幫忙, 幫手, 扛幫
Xingning 𢯭手
Huidong (Daling) 𢯭手
Shaoguan (Qujiang) 𢯭手
Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang) 𢯭手
Changting 𢯭手
Wuping 幹𢯭
Wuping (Pingyu) 𢯭手
Liancheng 𢯭手
Ruijin 𢯭手
Shicheng 幫手
Shangyou (Shexi) 幫手
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 𢯭手
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 𢯭手
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 𢯭手
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 𢯭手
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 𢯭手
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 鬥相共, 𢯭手
Huizhou Jixi 幫忙
Jin Taiyuan 打幫, 相幫
Northern Min Jian'ou 幫襯
Eastern Min Fuzhou 對手
Matsu 對手
Southern Min Xiamen 鬥相共, 鬥跤手
Quanzhou 鬥相共, 鬥跤手, 鬥跤搭
Zhangzhou 鬥相共, 鬥跤手
Zhao'an 幫忙
Taipei 鬥相共
New Taipei (Sanxia) 鬥相共
Kaohsiung 鬥跤手
Yilan 鬥相共
Changhua (Lukang) 鬥相共
Taichung 鬥相共, 鬥跤手
Taichung (Wuqi) 幫助
Tainan 鬥相共, 鬥跤手
Taitung 鬥跤手
Hsinchu 鬥相共, 鬥跤手
Kinmen 鬥相共
Penghu (Magong) 鬥相共, 鬥跤手, 幫忙, 鬥相贊
Penang (Hokkien) 鬥跤手, 幫忙
Singapore (Hokkien) 鬥跤手, 幫忙, 鬥相共
Manila (Hokkien) 鬥相共, 鬥, 幫助, 幫贈
Chaozhou 相輔
Shantou 相輔, 幫忙
Shantou (Chenghai) 相輔
Jieyang 相輔
Singapore (Teochew) 相輔
Pontianak (Teochew) 相輔
Leizhou 幫跤接手
Haikou 幫跤手
Singapore (Hainanese) 幫跤手, 幫忙
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 幫手
Wu Shanghai 幫忙, 相幫, 幫襯 dated
Xiang Loudi 幫忙

Compounds

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Japanese

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Shinjitai

賛

Kyūjitai

贊

Kanji

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贊

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 賛)

  1. Kyūjitai form of 賛 (help, assist, support)

Readings

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  • Go-on: さん (san)
  • Kan-on: さん (san)
  • Kun: たすける (tasukeru, 贊ける)、たたえる (tataeru, 贊える)

Korean

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Hanja

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贊 (eum 찬 (chan))

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Han character

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贊: Hán Nôm readings: tán

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