yán
beautiful
A woman 女 who appears forward or open 开
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ŋ]ˤe[r] | ngen | yán | beautiful |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.3204% of movies
2770th most common character in movies
4708th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+598D |
Shuowen | “妍，技也。一曰不省錄事。一曰難侵也。一曰惠也。一曰安也。从女，幵聲。讀若研。” |
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