yān

name of a district in Honan

Components
焉 sound component

  Sound component

yān

  

thereupon

阝 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

hill, place

place

Evolution

鄢 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鄢 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

yān

name of a district in Honan

 

Yān

surname Yan; name of a district in Henan

Most common words with 鄢
Freq.
Word
Meaning

surname Yan

鄢陵

Yanling county in Xuchang city 許昌市|许昌市[Xǔ​chāng​shì], Henan

鄢陵县

Yanling county in Xuchang city 許昌市|许昌市[Xǔ​chāng​shì], Henan

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ʔ](r)a[n]

'jen

yān

(place name)

*[ʔ]a[n]

'jon

yān

(place name)

*[ʔ]a[n]ʔ

'jonX

yān

(place name)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5266th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+9122

Shuowen

“鄢,南郡縣,孝惠三年改名宜城。从邑,焉聲。”


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