Hanja Analyzer
讃

讃 — chan

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
기릴 찬
Romanization
chan
English
praise, commend, eulogize
Mandarin
zàn
Japanese on'yomi
サン
Japanese kun'yomi
ほ.める たた.える
Japanese usage
Jinmeiyō kanji
Newspaper frequency
#2,179 of 2,500
Strokes
22
Variant forms
讚
Radical
言 (149, 15 residual)
Unicode
U+8B83

Parts that make up 讃

  • 言 말씀 언, 심사 화평할 은 혀 위에 표를 더한 모양말하고 적는 일
  • 賛 도울 찬

Japanese words with 讃

  • 讃賞さんしょう praise
  • 画讃がさん legend over a picture; inscription (legend, writing) on a painting
  • 和讃わさん hymns of praise in Japanese
  • 讃談さんだん praising Buddha; sermon; praise (second of the five gates of mindfulness)
  • 讃岐さぬき Sanuki (former province located in present-day Kagawa Prefecture)
  • 礼讃舞らいさんまい dance recital praising Buddha, which accompanies the recital of a gatha (in the Pure Land Sect of Buddhism)
  • 讃岐岩さぬきがん sanukite
  • 讃岐弁さぬきべん Kagawa dialect
  • 魂讃め星たまほめぼし Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); "day of the ghost"
  • 来迎和讃らいごうわさん Japanese hymn praising the coming of the Buddha (thought to be written by Minamoto No Makoto)
  • 土讃本線どさんほんせん Dosan Main Line (Kochi-Kagawa Railway)
  • 讃岐うどんさぬきうどん Sanuki udon; thick udon from Kagawa prefecture

Other hanja read “찬”

Other hanja with radical 言

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