in English

shàn
to support / to provide for

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 贍, the traditional character: 赡 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 贍 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 贍 Clerical script 曹魏

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 汤姆有家属需要赡养。

    Tom has dependents.

  • 等父母老了,我会赡养他们。

    When my parents get old, I will support them.

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