yān

salt

Meat ⺼ left  in salt;  also provides the pronunciation

Components
⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

奄 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

yǎnyān

  

ere long

Evolution

腌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
腌 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

yān

salt, pickle; be dirty; variant of |[yān]

() 

yān

to salt; to pickle; to cure (meat); to marinate

Most common words with 腌
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to salt

腌制

marinated

腌渍

to pickle

腌货

pickles