赞

See also: 贊さん and 讚たたえ

Translingual

Traditional	贊さん
Shinjitai	賛さん
Simplified	赞

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)

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

赞 (Kangxi radical 154, 贝+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹たけ山月やまつき人じん (HUBO), composition ⿱兟贝)

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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Chinese

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zàn, dàn (zan⁴, dan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄢˋ, ㄉㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaan³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chān

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zàn
    • Wade–Giles: tsan⁴
    • Yale: dzàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzann
    • Palladius: цзань (czanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sän⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàn
    • Wade–Giles: tan⁴
    • Yale: dàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dann
    • Palladius: дань (danʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zaan³
    • Yale: jaan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaan³
    • Guangdong Romanization: zan³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saːn³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chān
    • Tâi-lô: tsān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zan
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡san²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡san⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡san²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡san³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡san³³/

Verb

赞

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

Compounds

• 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