Character: 盞
Modern (Beijing) reading: zhǎn
Preclassic Old Chinese: ćrēnʔ
Classic Old Chinese: crḗn
Western Han Chinese: c̣jā́n
Eastern Han Chinese: c̣iā́n
Early Postclassic Chinese: c̣iẹ̄́n
Middle Postclassic Chinese: c̣iẹ̄́n
Late Postclassic Chinese: c̣iẹ̄́n
Middle Chinese: c̣ạ̈́n
English meaning : bowl [Han]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) чарка; чашка; 2) счетный суффикс ламп
Comments: The character is witnessed already in bronze inscriptions. Regular Sino-Viet. is tra`n. Cf. 琖. The word may have an Austric source - cf. Khmer ca:n, Tai ʔʒa:n 'bowl, dish' (but a Chinese source of those words is also possible).
Radical: 108
Four-angle index: 710
Karlgren code: 0155 f-g
Vietnamese reading: chén
