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赃

zāng

Character Traditional 贓

What 赃 means

1. stolen goods; loot; spoils

Other readings

赃 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• zāngvariant of {赃|zāng}

Words starting with 赃

• 赃款zāng kuǎnbooty; stolen goods
• 赃物zāng wùbooty; stolen property
• 赃官污吏zāng guān wū lìgrasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption

Words containing 赃

• 栽赃zāi zāngto frame sb (by planting sth on them)
• 分赃fēn zāngto share the booty; to divide ill-gotten gains
• 追赃zhuī zāngto order the return of stolen goods
• 销赃xiāo zāngto dispose of stolen goods
• 人赃俱获rén zāng jù huò(of a thief, smuggler etc) to be caught with stolen or illegal goods…
• 贪赃枉法tān zāng wǎng fǎcorruption and abuse of the law (idiom); to take bribes and bend the law

Characters that look like 赃

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 脏zāngdirty; filthy; to get (sth) dirty
• 贼zéithief; robber; (bound form) traitor; subversive; (bound form) evil; wicked
• 绒róngvelvet; woolen
• 躯qūhuman body
• 舵duòhelm; rudder
• 赅gāicomplete; full

Sounds the same

Read zāng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 脏dirty; filthy; to get (sth) dirty
• 臧good; right
• 牂female sheep; place name