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zhān

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zhān
  1. 1.felt
  2. 2.silken banner

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  1. 1.red, unadorned flag with a bent shaft
  2. 2.banner; flag
  3. 3.to commend, praise
  4. 4.a surname, Zhan
  5. 5.Used in transcription.

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *tjan): semantic 㫃 (“flags flying”) + phonetic 丹 (OC *taːn). Possibly related to 丹 (OC *taːn) (Wang, 1982; Schuessler, 2007). Hill (2014) compares it instead to Tibetan དར (dar, “flag”).

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