zhān

look

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
目 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

eye

詹 sound component

  Sound component

zhān

  

talk too much

Evolution

瞻 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
瞻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
瞻 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

zhān

look; look out for; respect; to gaze; to view

Most common words with 瞻
Freq.
Word
Meaning

前瞻性

farsightedness

瞻仰

to revere

高瞻远瞩

acute foresight

to gaze

前瞻

prescient