赃

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stolen goods; loot; spoils

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Formation & memory

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

贝 meaning “money” + 庄 sound ( zhuāng )

Components 贝庄

stolen goods · Heisig RSH #1788

贝 shellfish + 庄 hamlet

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
人赃俱获	rén zāng jù huò	(of a thief, smuggler etc) to be caught with stolen or illegal goods; to be caught red-han…
分赃	fēn zāng	to share the booty; to divide ill-gotten gains
赃物	zāng wù	booty; stolen property
贪赃枉法	tān zāng wǎng fǎ	corruption and abuse of the law (idiom); to take bribes and bend the law
赃官污吏	zāng guān wū lì	grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption
赃款	zāng kuǎn	booty; stolen goods
销赃	xiāo zāng	to dispose of stolen goods
追赃	zhuī zāng	to order the return of stolen goods
栽赃	zāi zāng	to frame sb (by planting sth on them)

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