yǎn

nightmare

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
鬼 meaning component

  Meaning component

guǐ

  

ghost

厌 sound component

  Sound component

yàn

  

dislike

Evolution

魇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
魇 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
魇 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

yǎn

nightmare, bad dreams; to have a nightmare

Most common words with 魇
Freq.
Word
Meaning

梦魇

nightmare

to have a nightmare

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4294th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Traditional

Unicode

U+9B47


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