彰
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clear; conspicuous; manifest
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How 彰 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
彡 (semantic, “sunlight”) + 章 (phonetic, zhāng)
How to remember it
manifest · Heisig RSH #2703
章 chapter + rooster tail
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 章
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 章 (zhāng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 章 sound component | zhāng | chapter, section, writing; seal |
| 商 | shāng | commerce, business, trade |
| 障 | zhàng | to separate; shield, barricade |
| 漳 | zhāng | a river in Henan province |
| 樟 | zhāng | camphor tree |
| 瘴 | zhàng | malaria; miasma, pestilential vapor |
| 獐 | zhāng | roebuck, hornless river deer |
| 嶂 | zhàng | cliff; the barrier formed by a mountain range |
| 璋 | zhāng | jade plaything; jade ornament |
| 蟑 | zhāng | cockroach |
| 嫜 | zhāng | husband's mother; the lady in the moon |
| 鄣 | zhāng | an ancient city in Jiangsu province |
Words containing 彰
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 彰化县 | Zhāng huà Xiàn | Zhanghua or Changhua County in west Taiwan |
| 彰化市 | Zhāng huà shì | Zhanghua or Changhua city in west Taiwan, capital of Changhua county |
| 相得益彰 | xiāng dé yì zhāng | to bring out the best in each other (idiom); to complement one another well |
| 彰武县 | Zhāng wǔ Xiàn | Zhangwu, a county in Fuxin City 阜新市[Fu4 xin1 Shi4], Liaoning |
| 恶名昭彰 | è míng zhāo zhāng | infamous; notorious |
| 彰化 | Zhāng huà | Zhanghua or Changhua city and county in west Taiwan |
| 彰明 | zhāng míng | to show clearly; to make public; obvious |
| 众目昭彰 | zhòng mù zhāo zhāng | lit. the masses are sharp-eyed (idiom); fig. one is subjected to the scrutiny of the gener… |
| 表彰 | biǎo zhāng | to honor; to commend; to cite (in dispatches) |
| 彰武 | Zhāng wǔ | see 彰武縣|彰武县[Zhang1 wu3 Xian4] |
| 臭名昭彰 | chòu míng zhāo zhāng | notorious for his misdeeds (idiom); infamous |
| 欲盖弥彰 | yù gài mí zhāng | trying to hide it makes it more conspicuous (idiom); A cover up only makes matters worse. |
| 彰明较著 | zhāng míng jiào zhù | obvious; clear for all to see |
| 彰显 | zhāng xiǎn | to put on display (sth abstract); to draw attention to; conspicuous |
| 彰善瘅恶 | zhāng shàn dàn è | to distinguish good and evil (idiom); to uphold virtue and condemn evil; to praise good an… |
| 跌宕昭彰 | diē dàng zhāo zhāng | flowing (of prose); free |
| 彰彰 | zhāng zhāng | obvious; manifest; clearly visible |