yǎn

flowing and engulfing

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

water

允 sound component

  Sound component

yǔn

  

allow, permit

Evolution

沇 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
沇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
沇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
沇 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

yǎn

flowing and engulfing; brimming; archaic variant of |[Yǎn]

 

Yǎn

surname Yan