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檐

yán

eaves of house

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 詹 represents the sound. Simplified form of 簷.

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

詹 sound component

詹  Sound component

zhān

  

talk too much

Evolution

檐 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
檐 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
檐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
檐 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

檐  

yán

eaves of house; brim, rim; eaves; ledge or brim

檐 (簷) 

yán

variant of 檐[yán]

Most common words with 檐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

屋檐

eaves

檐

eaves

帽檐

brim (of a hat)

飞檐走壁

to leap onto roofs and vault over walls (usually associated with martial arts)

房檐

eaves

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə.[ɢ]am

yem

yán

eaves

*[ɢ][a]m

yem

yán

temple gate


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.5537% of movies

3218th most common character in movies

3102nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+6A90

Shuowen

“檐，也。从木，詹聲。”


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