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Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsaːns
*ʔsaːns, *zaːnʔ
*ʔsaːns
*ʔsaːns, *zoːn
*ʔsaːns
*ʔsaːns
*ʔsaːns
*ʔsaːns, *ʔsoːnʔ
*zaːnʔ
*zaːnʔ, *zoːn
*zaːns, *zoːn
*zaːns, *zaːd
*ʔsoːn, *ʔsoːns
*ʔsoːn, *zoːn
*ʔsoːnʔ
*ʔsoːnʔ
*ʔsoːnʔ
*ʔsoːnʔ, *zoːn
*ʔsoːnʔ
*zoːn
*zoːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔsaːns) : phonetic  (OC *srin) + semantic  (money) – to help with money.

Han character

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

  1. to help, to support, to assist, to aid

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 1212, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36935
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1678, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3657, character 21
  • Unihan data for U+8D0A

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /t͡san⁵¹/
Harbin /t͡san⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡san⁵³/
Jinan /t͡sã²¹/
Qingdao /t͡sã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡san³¹²/
/t͡suan³¹²/
Xi'an /t͡sã⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡sã²¹³/
Yinchuan /t͡san¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡sɛ̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡san²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡san³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡san¹³/
Guiyang /t͡san²¹³/
Kunming /t͡sã̠²¹²/
Nanjing /t͡saŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /t͡sæ̃⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sæ̃⁴⁵/
Pingyao /t͡sɑŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡sæ̃⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /t͡se³⁵/
Suzhou /t͡se̞⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /t͡sẽ̞⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡sa⁴²/
Hui Shexian /t͡sɛ³²⁴/
Tunxi /t͡sɔ⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /t͡san⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /t͡san⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /t͡san⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /t͡san⁵³/
Taoyuan /t͡sɑn⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡san³³/
Nanning /t͡san³³/
Hong Kong /t͡san³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡san²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sɑŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡suiŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡saŋ²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡saŋ³⁵/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 16514
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsaːns/

Definitions

  1. to help; to support
  2. to agree
Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see .
(This character, , is a variant form of .)

Japanese

Kanji

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

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(chan) (hangeul , revised chan, McCune-Reischauer ch'an, Yale chan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tán)

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