shàn

support

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
贝 meaning component

  Meaning component

bèi

  

sea shell

詹 sound component

  Sound component

zhān

  

talk too much

Evolution

赡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
赡 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
赡 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
赡 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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shàn

support, aid; to be sufficient; rich, elegant; to support; to provide for

Most common words with 赡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

赡养费

alimony

to support

赡养

to support

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.3295% of movies

3185th most common character in movies

3902nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Traditional

Unicode

U+8D61


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