Kanji Detail for 贊 - "assist, praise, recommend, eulogy, inscription"

贊

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
贊 means "assist, praise, recommend, eulogy, inscription."
1. Assist - To help; to support.
2. Praise - To commend; to extol.
3. Recommend - To propose.
4. Eulogy - A type of writing that praises people or things.
5. Inscription - A poem or text added to a painting.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

help; support; assist; aid

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

help, support, assist, aid

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

(bound form) to patronize; to support; to aid; (bound form) to praise; to laud

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

to help, to support; to laud, to praise

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

To assist. Promoting, supporting, and making things easier to proceed is called 贊. Such as 贊成 (support), 參贊 (counsel). | To guide. One who assists in ceremonies is called 贊禮 (master of ceremonies). Meaning one who guides others in performing rituals. | To praise someone is called 贊. Also a literary genre. Works praising people. All interchangeable with 讚.
Onyomi

san(さん)
Kunyomi

tasu.keru(たすける)

tata.eru(たたえる)
Strokes

19 strokes
Radical

貝 (kai・kaihen・kogai)
Related Keywords
assist help support praise commend extol recommend propose eulogy type writing praises people things inscription