Chinese Character Wiki

盞

zhǎn

small cup or container

A small 戔 dish 皿; 戔 also provides the pronunciation

Components
戔 sound,meaning component

戔  Sound Meaning component

jiān

  

small

皿 meaning component

皿  Meaning component

mǐn

  

dish

Evolution

盞 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
盞 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

盏 (盞) 

zhǎn

small cup or container; classifier for lamps, etc.; a small cup; classifier for lamps

Most common words with 盞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

盏

a small cup

灯盏

lantern

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]rarʔ

tsreanX

zhǎn

cup


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.6979% of movies

3114th most common character in movies

2803rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

盏

Unicode

U+76DE


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