yǎn
grave
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 严 represents the sound. Simplified form of 儼.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
3559th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+4FE8 |
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