赃
stolen goods; loot; spoils
10 strokes
Dict coverage rank #3,127 U+8D43
How 赃 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
贝 (semantic, “money”) + 庄 (phonetic, zhuāng)
How to remember it
stolen goods · Heisig RSH #1788
贝 shellfish + 庄 hamlet
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 庄
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 庄 (zhuāng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 庄 sound component | zhuāng | village, hamlet; villa, manor |
| 脏 | zāng | organs, viscera; dirty, filthy |
| 桩 | zhuāng | stake, post; matter, affair |
Words containing 赃
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人赃俱获 | rén zāng jù huò | (of a thief, smuggler etc) to be caught with stolen or illegal goods; to be caught red-han… |
| 分赃 | fēn zāng | to share the booty; to divide ill-gotten gains |
| 赃物 | zāng wù | booty; stolen property |
| 贪赃枉法 | tān zāng wǎng fǎ | corruption and abuse of the law (idiom); to take bribes and bend the law |
| 赃官污吏 | zāng guān wū lì | grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption |
| 赃款 | zāng kuǎn | booty; stolen goods |
| 销赃 | xiāo zāng | to dispose of stolen goods |
| 追赃 | zhuī zāng | to order the return of stolen goods |
| 栽赃 | zāi zāng | to frame sb (by planting sth on them) |