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zhàn

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zhàn Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
zhàn | zhan4
English translation
warehouse; tavern, inn

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About zhàn

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Number of strokes

12

Traditional form

zhàn

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

Learning hint

wood

Etymology of zhàn

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

木戔

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

jiān

Explanation

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

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Words with zhàn

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
客栈 kè zhàn tavern客棧
zhàn a warehouse zhàn
栈道 zhàn dào plank walkway constructed on the face of a cliff棧道
货栈 huò zhàn warehouse貨棧
栈桥 zhàn qiáo a pier棧橋
堆栈 duī zhàn storehouse堆棧
恋栈 liàn zhàn to be reluctant to give up a post戀棧
栈房 zhàn fáng warehouse棧房
粮栈 liáng zhàn wholesale grain store糧棧
驽马恋栈豆 nú mǎ liàn zhàn dòu an incompetent man clings to a good position (idiom)駑馬戀棧豆
栈存储器 zhàn cún chǔ qì stack memory (computing)棧存儲器

zhàn Decomposition & Compounds

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