yǎn, yān
ere long
Lightning (电) is a big (大) and sudden and abrupt phenomenon.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ʔ(r)omʔ | 'jemX | yǎn | cover |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.0412% of movies
3127th most common character in movies
3462nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+5944 |
Shuowen | “奄,覆也。大有餘也。又欠也。从大,从申。申,展也。” |
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