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zhān

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zhān Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
zhān | zhan1
English translation
to gaze
to view
to look; to look out for; to respect

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About zhān

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Number of strokes

18

Traditional form

zhān

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Verb-like morpheme / 动词性语素 Dòngcí xìng yǔsù

Learning hint

eye

Etymology of zhān

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

目詹

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

zhān

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and zhān represents the sound.

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Example sentences using zhān

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瞻望 zhān wàng 自己 zìjǐ 身后 shēn hòu kōng , 属于 shǔyú 过时 guò shí de 品种 pǐnzhǒng .

He saw nothing beyond himself along the branch. His kind was obsolete.

Words with zhān

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
前瞻性 qián zhān xìng farsightedness前瞻性 qián zhān xìng
瞻仰 zhānyǎng to revere瞻仰 zhānyǎng
高瞻远瞩 gāo zhān yuǎn zhǔ acute foresight高瞻遠矚
zhān to gaze zhān
前瞻 qián zhān prescient前瞻 qián zhān
瞻前顾后 zhān qián gù hòu to look forward and back瞻前顧後
马首是瞻 mǎ shǒu shì zhān to follow blindly (idiom)馬首是瞻
瞻望 zhān wàng to look far ahead瞻望 zhān wàng
朱瞻基 Zhū Zhān jī Zhu Zhanji, personal name of fifth Ming emperor Xuande 宣德 Xuān dé [Xuān​dé]朱瞻基 Zhū Zhān jī
瞻拜 zhān bài to worship瞻拜 zhān bài

zhān Decomposition & Compounds

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zhān Decomposition

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