赃 zāng booty
booty; loot; stolen goods; to bribe
怎么记住“赃”: 贝 sea shell + 庄 village = booty. The kids play pirates at the edge of the old village and bury every sea shell they own as their booty and treasure.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
originally 貝 + 臧
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
赃 = 贝 sea shell + 庄 village
- 贝 sea shell meaning
- 庄 village shape only
The kids play pirates at the edge of the old village and bury every sea shell they own as their booty and treasure.
How it came to be
The shell gives the meaning; the full form has a different sound part on the right, which the short form writes as village.
用法
- Stolen goods / ill-gotten gains: 赃款 (zāngkuǎn) illicit money, 赃物 (zāngwù) stolen goods, 贪赃枉法 (tānzāng-wǎngfǎ) to take bribes and pervert the law.
- 栽赃 (zāizāng) means to frame someone by planting evidence; 销赃 (xiāozāng) to fence stolen goods. Legal register.