彰

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clear; conspicuous; manifest

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

彡 meaning “sunlight” + 章 sound ( zhāng )

Components 章彡

manifest · Heisig RSH #2703

章 chapter + rooster tail

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
彰化县	Zhāng huà Xiàn	Zhanghua or Changhua County in west Taiwan
彰化市	Zhāng huà shì	Zhanghua or Changhua city in west Taiwan, capital of Changhua county
相得益彰	xiāng dé yì zhāng	to bring out the best in each other (idiom); to complement one another well
彰武县	Zhāng wǔ Xiàn	Zhangwu, a county in Fuxin City 阜新市[Fu4 xin1 Shi4], Liaoning
恶名昭彰	è míng zhāo zhāng	infamous; notorious
彰化	Zhāng huà	Zhanghua or Changhua city and county in west Taiwan
彰明	zhāng míng	to show clearly; to make public; obvious
众目昭彰	zhòng mù zhāo zhāng	lit. the masses are sharp-eyed (idiom); fig. one is subjected to the scrutiny of the gener…
表彰	biǎo zhāng	to honor; to commend; to cite (in dispatches)
彰武	Zhāng wǔ	see 彰武縣\|彰武县[Zhang1 wu3 Xian4]
臭名昭彰	chòu míng zhāo zhāng	notorious for his misdeeds (idiom); infamous
欲盖弥彰	yù gài mí zhāng	trying to hide it makes it more conspicuous (idiom); A cover up only makes matters worse.
彰明较著	zhāng míng jiào zhù	obvious; clear for all to see
彰显	zhāng xiǎn	to put on display (sth abstract); to draw attention to; conspicuous
彰善瘅恶	zhāng shàn dàn è	to distinguish good and evil (idiom); to uphold virtue and condemn evil; to praise good an…
跌宕昭彰	diē dàng zhāo zhāng	flowing (of prose); free
彰彰	zhāng zhāng	obvious; manifest; clearly visible

Characters sharing the sound component 章 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
章 sound part	zhāng	chapter, section, writing; seal
商	shāng	commerce, business, trade
障	zhàng	to separate; shield, barricade
漳	zhāng	a river in Henan province
樟	zhāng	camphor tree
瘴	zhàng	malaria; miasma, pestilential vapor
獐	zhāng	roebuck, hornless river deer
嶂	zhàng	cliff; the barrier formed by a mountain range
璋	zhāng	jade plaything; jade ornament
蟑	zhāng	cockroach
嫜	zhāng	husband's mother; the lady in the moon
鄣	zhāng	an ancient city in Jiangsu province