yān
thereupon
A bird 鳥 with a strange head
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 焉
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
where | ||
absent-minded | ||
to mention sth without elaborating (idiom); not giving details | ||
Yanqi county in Xinjiang | ||
don't use a sledgehammer on a nut |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ʔa[n] | 'jen | yān | how |
*[ʔ]a[n] (atonic) | hjen | yān | (3p locative pronoun) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.2265% of movies
2986th most common character in movies
2526th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+7109 |
Shuowen | “焉,焉鳥,黃色,出於江淮。象形。” |
Sources
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