shānyán

a boundary

An earthen  roadblock 

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

延 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

delay

Evolution

埏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
埏 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shān

a boundary, a limit; to mix water with clay

 

yán

boundary

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6998th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+57CF

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“埏,八方之地也。从土,延聲。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License