Chinese symbol for “earn”
赚
zhuàn
Traditional: 賺
to earn; to make a profit
The closest CC-CEDICT match for earn is 赚 (zhuàn), defined as: to earn; to make a profit.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “earn”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 挣得 (掙得) | zhèng dé | to earn (income); to make (money) |
| 赚得 (賺得) | zhuàn dé | to earn |
| 进账 (進賬) | jìn zhàng | (of money) to come into an account; to get; to earn |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 赚.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 赚钱 (賺錢) | zhuàn qián | to earn money; moneymaking |
| 网赚 (網賺) | wǎng zhuàn | to make money online |
| 赚取 (賺取) | zhuàn qǔ | to make a profit; to earn a packet |
| 赚大钱 (賺大錢) | zhuàn dà qián | to earn a fortune |
| 赚头 (賺頭) | zhuàn tou | profit (colloquial) |
| 赚吆喝 (賺吆喝) | zhuàn yāo he | (of a company) to gain recognition through promotional efforts; to spend money to win customers |
See also: Japanese symbol for “earn”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.