讚
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Translingual
| Traditional | 讚 |
|---|---|
| Shinjitai | 讃 |
| Simplified | 赞 |
Han character
讚 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+19, 26 strokes, cangjie input 卜口竹山金 (YRHUC), four-corner 04686, composition ⿰訁贊)
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
Chinese
| trad. | 讚/贊* | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 赞* | |
| 2nd round simp. | 𰷣 | |
| nonstandard simp. | 𬤮 | |
| alternative forms | 讃 | |
Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (贊) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsaːns): semantic 言 (“say”) + phonetic 贊 (OC *ʔsaːns).
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): zaan3
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chan
- Southern Min
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 5tse
- 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)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: zaan3
- Yale: jaan
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzaan3
- Guangdong Romanization: zan3
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡saːn³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chan
- Hakka Romanization System: zan
- Hagfa Pinyim: zan4
- Sinological IPA: /t͡san⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chàn
- Tâi-lô: tsàn
- Phofsit Daibuun: zaxn
- IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /t͡san²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /t͡san¹¹/
- IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /t͡san⁴¹/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: zang3
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsàng
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡saŋ²¹³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese)
- Wu
- Middle Chinese: tsanH
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsaːns/
Definitions
讚
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “to like”): 踩 (cǎi)
Compounds
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- 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)+
- 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/
- (Hokkien)
Definitions
讚
- (chiefly Southern Min, Taiwanese Mandarin) cool; awesome
Synonyms
- (Mandarin) 棒 (bàng)
Etymology 3
| For pronunciation and definitions of 讚 – see 㜺 (“good; great”). (This character is a variant form of 㜺). |
Further reading
- “讚”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
Japanese
| 讃 | |
| 讚 |
Kanji
讚
(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 讃)
- praise
- picture title
Readings
Korean
Etymology
From Middle Chinese 讚 (MC tsanH).
| Historical Readings | ||
|---|---|---|
| Dongguk Jeongun Reading | ||
| Dongguk Jeongun, 1448 | 잔〮 (Yale: cán) | |
| Middle Korean | ||
| Text | Eumhun | |
| Gloss (hun) | Reading | |
| Hunmong Jahoe, 1527[1] | 기릴〮 (Yale: kìlíl) | 찬〯 (Yale: chǎn) |
| Gwangju Cheonjamun, 1575 | 기릴 (Yale: kilil) | 찬 (Yale: chan) |
| Seokbong Cheonjamun, 1583 | 기릴 (Yale: kilil) | 찬 (Yale: chan) |
Pronunciation
- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [t͡ɕʰa̠(ː)n]
- Phonetic hangul: [찬(ː)]
- Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Hanja
Compounds
- 격절칭찬 (擊節稱讚, gyeokjeolchingchan)
- 격찬 (激讚, gyeokchan, “great praise”)
- 경찬 (慶讚, gyeongchan, “Buddhist praise”)
- 과찬 (過讚, gwachan, “excessive praise”)
- 극찬 (極讚, geukchan, “extreme praise”)
- 예찬 (禮讚, yechan, “lauding”)
- 자찬 (自讚, jachan, “self-praise”)
- 자화자찬 (自畫自讚, jahwajachan)
- 절찬 (絕讚, jeolchan, “extreme praise”)
- 찬가 (讚歌, chan'ga, “song of praise”)
- 찬미 (讚美, chanmi, “praise, lauding”)
- 찬불 (讚佛, chanbul, “praise of the Buddha”)
- 찬사 (讚辭, chansa, “words of praise”)
- 찬송 (讚頌, chansong, “praise, lauding”)
- 찬송가 (讚頌歌, chansongga, “Christian hymn”)
- 찬양 (讚揚, chanyang, “praise”)
- 칭찬 (稱讚, chingchan, “compliment”)
Vietnamese
Han character
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