yān

castrate

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
門 meaning component

  Meaning component

mén

  

door

奄 sound component

  Sound component

yǎnyān

  

ere long

Evolution

閹 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
閹 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
閹 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
閹 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

yān

castrate; eunuch; to castrate; a castrate; neuter

Most common words with 閹
Freq.
Word
Meaning

neuter

阉割

to castrate

阉人

a castrate

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.6819% of movies

3116th most common character in movies

3814th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+95B9

Shuowen

“閹,豎也。宮中奄閽閉門者。从門,奄聲。”


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