yán

eaves of a ancestral temple (of the ruling family)

Evolution

䦲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

yán

eaves of a ancestral temple (of the ruling family), door of a shrine or a temple, small opening (of a door), to spy; to peep

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Unicode

U+49B2

Shuowen

“,謂之樀。樀,廟門也。从門,詹聲。”


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