讚

See also: 讃 and 赞

讚 U+8B9A, 讚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B9A ← 讙 [U+8B99] CJK Unified Ideographs 讛 → [U+8B9B]

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) 

	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

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵tse

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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 Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chan
    • Hakka Romanization System: zan
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zan⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡san⁵⁵/
• 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/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵tse
    • MiniDict: tse^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tse
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡se³⁴/

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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/
Bernhard 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

讚

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

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “to like”): 踩 (cǎi)

Compounds

• 稱讚 / 称赞 (chēngzàn)
• 讚不絕口 / 赞不绝口 (zànbùjuékǒu)
• 讚佩 / 赞佩
• 讚嘆 / 赞叹 (zàntàn)
• 讚好 / 赞好
• 讚揚 / 赞扬 (zànyáng)
• 讚揚 / 赞扬 (zànyáng)
• 讚歌 / 赞歌 (zàngē)
• 讚美 / 赞美 (zànměi)
• 讚美 / 赞美 (zànměi)
• 讚美詩 / 赞美诗 (zànměishī)
• 讚羨 / 赞羡
• 讚許 / 赞许 (zànxǔ)
• 讚詞 / 赞词
• 讚語 / 赞语
• 讚譽 / 赞誉 (zànyù)
• 讚賞 / 赞赏 (zànshǎng)
• 讚辭 / 赞辞
• 讚頌 / 赞颂 (zànsòng)

 

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

讚

1. (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

• “Entry #13432”, 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., 2024.

Japanese

Shinjitai	讃
Kyūjitai	讚

Kanji

讚

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 讃)

1. praise
2. picture title

Readings

• Go-on: さん (san)
• Kan-on: さん (san)
• Kun: たたえる (tataeru, 讚える)、ほめる (homeru, 讚める)、ほめことば (homekotoba)

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

Wikisource

讚 (eumhun 기릴 찬 (giril chan))

1. hanja form^? of [[찬#Korean:_讚|찬]] (“to praise; to laud”) [verbal root; affix]

Compounds

Compounds

• 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”)
• 찬양 (讚揚, chanyang, “praise”)
• 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”)
• 절찬 (絕讚, jeolchan, “extreme praise”)
• 칭찬 (稱讚, chingchan, “compliment”)
• 찬송가 (讚頌歌, chansongga, “Christian hymn”)
• 격절칭찬 (擊節稱讚, gyeokjeolchingchan)
• 자화자찬 (自畫自讚, jahwajachan)

Vietnamese

Han character

讚: Hán Nôm readings: tán

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