儼 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

yǎn

grave

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 嚴 represents the sound.

Components

亻 Meaning component

rén

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

嚴 Sound component

yán

strict

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

yǎn

grave, respectful, majestic; majestic; dignified

Most common words with 儼

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	俨然	just like
	俨	majestic

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*ŋ(r)[a]mʔ	ngjaemX	yǎn	dignified

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3559th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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