yán
face
Phonosemantic compound. 页 represents the meaning and 彦 represents the sound. Simplified form of 顏.
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 21.9446% of movies
1472nd most common character in movies
1545th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+989C |
Sources
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