Character: 贊
Modern (Beijing) reading: zàn
Preclassic Old Chinese: cāns
Classic Old Chinese: cānh
Western Han Chinese: cānh
Eastern Han Chinese: cānh
Early Postclassic Chinese: cā̀n
Middle Postclassic Chinese: cā̀n
Late Postclassic Chinese: cā̀n
Middle Chinese: cần
English meaning : to assist, approve
Russian meaning[s]: 1) помогать, содействовать; поощрять; поддерживать; 2) хвалить, одобрять; хвала; похвала; 3) сказать, сообщить; 4) обходиться по этикету; 5) древн. видеть
Comments: A somewhat later meaning is ('to approve, assist verbally') > 'to flatter'. This meaning since LZ was denoted by the same character with an addition of the 149th radical 言. Regular Sino-Viet. is tán; labialisation in Viet. chuâ`n is not clear.
Radical: 154
Four-angle index: 8045
Karlgren code: 0153 a-b
Vietnamese reading: chuâ`n
