yān

charming

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

woman

焉 sound component

  Sound component

yān

  

thereupon

Evolution

嫣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
嫣 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

yān

charming, fascinating; gay; lovely; sweet

Most common words with 嫣
Freq.
Word
Meaning

lovely

嫣然

beautiful

嫣然一笑

to smile sweetly

嫣红

bright red

姹紫嫣红

fig. beautiful purples and brilliant reds (idiom); lit. beautiful flowers

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3520th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+5AE3

Shuowen

“嫣,長皃。从女,焉聲。”


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