Chinese Character Wiki

誾

yín

speak gently

Components
門 sound component

門  Sound component

mén

  

door

言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

speech

Evolution

誾 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
誾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
誾 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
誾 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
誾 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

訚 (誾) 

yín

speak gently; respectful; to speak gently

訚 (誾) 

Yín

surname Yin

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ŋ]rə[n] (< uvular?)

ngin

yín

affable, reasonable


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7233rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

訚

Unicode

U+8ABE

Shuowen

“誾，和說而諍也。从言，門聲。”


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