讚

See also: 讃 and 赞

Translingual

Han character

讚 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+19, 26 strokes, cangjie input 卜口竹山金 (YRHUC), four-corner 0468₆, composition ⿰言贊)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1188, character 4
• Dae Jaweon: page 1652, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4034, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8B9A

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Chinese

trad.		讚/贊*
simp.		赞*
alternative forms		讃 ⿱㚘贝 (second-round simplified)

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／形声, OC *ʔsaːns) : semantic 言 (“say”) + phonetic 贊 (OC *ʔsaːns).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zàn (zan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaan³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chan
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chàn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zang³

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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/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zaan³
    • Yale: jaan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaan³
    • Guangdong Romanization: zan³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saːn³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chan
    • Hakka Romanization System: zan
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zan⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡san⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chàn
    • Tâi-lô: tsàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zaxn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡san²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡san⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡san²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡san¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡san²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zang³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsàng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saŋ²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: tsanH

Rime
Character	讚
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

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsaːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	讚
Reading #	1/1
No.	16516
Phonetic component	贊
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	賛
Old Chinese	/*ʔsaːns/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 讚

1. to praise; to commend; to eulogize
2. (Internet) to like

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Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zàn (zan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄢˋ

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chán

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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/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chán
    • Tâi-lô: tsán
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zarn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡san⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡san⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡san⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡san⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡san⁴¹/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 讚

1. (Southern Min, Taiwanese Mandarin) cool; awesome

Synonyms

• (Mandarin) 棒 (bàng)

Further reading

• “Entry #13432”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Kanji

讚

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. praise
2. picture title

Readings

• On (unclassified): さん (san)
• Kun: ほめる (homeru), ほめことば (homekotoba)

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Korean

Hanja

讚 • (chan) (hangeul 찬, revised chan, McCune–Reischauer ch'an, Yale chan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 讚 (tán)

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