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赚

zhuàn

HSK 4 Character Traditional 賺

What 赚 means

1. to earn
2. to make a profit

Other readings

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

• zuànto cheat; to swindle

Example sentences

• 我赚钱养家。
  Wǒ zhuànqián yǎngjiā.
  I sustain my family.
• 你怎么赚钱？
  How do you make your money?
• 我想赚多点。
  I'd like to earn more.
• 这比我赚得多。
  This is more than I have earned.
• 他赚了很多钱。
  He has earned a lot of money.
• 汤姆赚不少钱。
  Tom makes quite a bit of money.

Words starting with 赚

• 赚钱zhuàn qiánto earn money; moneymaking
• 赚取zhuàn qǔto make a profit; to earn a packet
• 赚得zhuàn déto earn
• 赚头zhuàn touprofit (colloquial)
• 赚回来zhuàn huí laito earn back (money one invested, wasted etc)
• 赚大钱zhuàn dà qiánto earn a fortune
• 赚哄zhuàn hǒngto cheat; to hoodwink; to defraud
• 赚吆喝zhuàn yāo he(of a company) to gain recognition through promotional efforts…

Words containing 赚

• 网赚wǎng zhuànto make money online

Characters that look like 赚

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

• 嫌xiánto dislike; suspicion; resentment
• 慷kāngused in 慷慨
• 踩cǎito step on; to tread; to stamp
• 睫jiéeyelashes
• 跺duòto stamp one's feet
• 瞋chēn(literary) to stare angrily; to glare

Sounds the same

Read zhuàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 撰to compose; to compile
• 转to revolve; to turn; to circle about
• 传biography; historical narrative; commentaries
• 篆seal (of office); seal script (a calligraphic style); the small seal 小篆 and great seal 大篆
• 馔food; delicacies
• 啭to sing (of birds or insects); to warble; to chirp
• 瑑engraved lines
• 僎collect
• 䌸to tie up
• 篹to compose; to compile; food
• 籑old variant of 撰