贊

See also: 賛 and 赞

Translingual

Traditional	贊
Shinjitai	賛
Simplified	赞

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 讚, 鑽, 攢, 纘, 瓚, 臢, 趲, 躦
• 賛, 赞

References

• 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

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Chinese

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

Glyph origin

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsaːns) : phonetic 兟 (OC *srin) + semantic 貝 (“money”) – to help with money.

Etymology 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 贊

1. to help; to support
2. to agree

Etymology 2

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).

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Japanese

Shinjitai	賛
Kyūjitai	贊

Kanji

贊

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 賛)

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

Readings

• 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)

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Korean

Hanja

贊 • (chan) (hangeul 찬)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 贊 (tán)

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