zhān
look
Phonosemantic compound. 目 represents the meaning and 詹 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 瞻
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
farsightedness | ||
to revere | ||
acute foresight | ||
to gaze | ||
prescient |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[t.q]am | tsyem | zhān | see, look at |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2960th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Unicode | U+77BB |
Shuowen | “瞻,臨視也。从目,詹聲。” |
Sources
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