腌 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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yān

salt

Meat ⺼ left 奄 in salt; 奄 also provides the pronunciation

Components

⺼ Meaning component

ròu

meat, flesh

yǎn, yān

ere long

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

yān

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

yān

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

Most common words with 腌

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.4737% of movies

3023rd most common character in movies

4219th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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