yǎnyān

ere long

Lightning () is a big () and sudden and abrupt phenomenon.

Components
大 meaning component

  Meaning component

dài

  

big

电 meaning component

  Meaning component

diàn

  

electricity

Evolution

奄 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
奄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
奄 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
奄 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

yǎn

ere long; remain, tarry; feeble; suddenly; abruptly; hastily; to cover; to surround

 

Yǎn

surname Yan

 

yān

variant of |[yān]; to castrate; variant of [yān]; to delay

Most common words with 奄
Freq.
Word
Meaning

奄奄一息

dying

suddenly

气息奄奄

to have only a breath of life (idiom)

Component uses

Meaning component in 3 characters (0 verified)

Sound component in 15 characters (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ʔ(r)omʔ

'jemX

yǎn

cover


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.0412% of movies

3127th most common character in movies

3462nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5944

Shuowen

“奄,覆也。大有餘也。又欠也。从大,从申。申,展也。”


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