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Chinese surname · rank 381

昝

昝 is read as zǎn.

Pinyin

zǎn

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 昝

Basic meaning

a dual pronoun, I, you and me, we two

Five element

Earth

Origin

Time: Han-era tradition, 202 BCE-220 CE

Place: Shu commandery / Ba-Shu region; Xiangyang Guanghua Can/酂 place-name layer; Northern Wei Gaoche / Tiele sinicization context; Taiyuan commandery prestige geography in later surname notes

Origin note

Zan/昝 is a rare surname with several source-backed traditional layers. One layer places early Zan in Shu commandery and Ba-Shu Cong / Bandun-Man surname history. A second layer explains some Zan lineages as graph-change descendants of Can/酂 or Zan/赞 forms. A third layer connects some bearers with Northern Wei ethnic surname reform, especially Gaoche or Tiele Chilu-related clans changed to Zan. Later surname notes also preserve a Jiu/咎 or Zan Dan ancestor-name tradition. Because these layers differ, this page presents them as parallel traditions and separates them from the character's pronoun-like dictionary use.

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