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zhǎn

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zhǎn Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
zhǎn | zhan3
English translation
new, bold; steep, high

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About zhǎn

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Number of strokes

14

Traditional form

zhǎn

Contains the radical

Shān

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

Learning hint

mountain

Etymology of zhǎn

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

山斬

Semantic compound

Shān

Phonetic compound

zhǎn

Explanation

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

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Words with zhǎn

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
崭新 zhǎnxīn brand new嶄新
崭露头角 zhǎn lù tóu jiǎo to reveal outstanding talent (idiom); to stand out as conspicuously brilliant嶄露頭角
chán high zhǎn
崭亮 zhǎn liàng shining嶄亮
崭齐 zhǎn qí orderly嶄齊

zhǎn Decomposition & Compounds

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