yàn, yān
swallow (bird)
A swallow, with its head 廿, wings 北, and tail 灬
Components
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
yàn
swallow (bird); comfort, enjoy; swallow (family Hirundinidae); old variant of 宴[yàn]
Yān
Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern Hebei and Liaoning; north Hebei; the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337-370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕 (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409-436); surname Yan
yàn
variant of 燕[yàn]
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ʔˤe[n]-s | 'enH | yàn | swallow (n.) |
*ʔˤe[n]-s | 'enH | yàn | feast |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.7391% of movies
2640th most common character in movies
1705th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+71D5 |
Shuowen | “燕，玄鳥也。籋口，布翄，枝尾，象形。” |
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