yàn
to entertain
A woman 女 cooking food 日 for a house 宀 banquet
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Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ʔˤe[n]-s | 'enH | yàn | feast (n.) |
HSK level 6
Appears in 11.9173% of movies
1711th most common character in movies
2155th most common character in books
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+5BB4 |
Shuowen | “宴,安也。从宀,晏聲。” |