赞

See also: 贊さん and 讚たたえ

Translingual

Japanese	賛さん
Simplified	赞
Traditional	贊さん讚たたえ

Etymology

Simplified from 贊さん (貝かい → 贝).

Also Simplified from 讚たたえ (elimination of 言げん and 貝かい → 贝) (elimination of 言げん, in addition to 貝かい → 贝 simplification).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲けいせい／形声けいせい) : phonetic 兟 (OC *srin) + semantic 贝 (“money”) – to help with money.

Han character

1. to praise
2. help, support, assist, aid, patronize

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1213, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3658, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8D5E

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Cantonese

• Romanizations
  • Mandarin
    • Pinyin: zàn (zan4)
    • Wade-Giles: tsan⁴
    • Yale:
  • Cantonese
    • Jyutping:
    • Penkyamp:
    • Yale: jaan3

• Style: Simplified Chinese
  • Traditional equivalent: 贊さん, 讚たたえ

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): [tsan˥˩]

Verb

1. to commend; to praise
2. to aid; to assist

Derived terms

• 赞比亚
• 赞不绝口
• 赞成
• 赞辞, 赞词
• 赞歌
• 赞美
• 赞美诗
• 赞佩
• 赞赏
• 赞颂
• 赞叹
• 赞同
• 赞羡
• 赞许
• 赞扬
• 赞语
• 赞誉
• 赞助
• 赞助商しょう

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Min Nan

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): [tsan˥˧]

Adjective

1. awesome; cool

See also

• 棒ぼう (Mandarin equivalent)

Verb

1. to commend; to praise

Derived terms

• 称しょう赞
• 赞扬
• 赞美