ān

versed in

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

音 sound component

  Sound component

yīn

  

sound

Evolution

諳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
諳 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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ān

versed in, fully acquainted with; to be versed in; to know well

Most common words with 諳
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to know well

熟谙

well-versed

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3927th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+8AF3

Shuowen

“諳,悉也。从言,音聲。”


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