yǎn
jewel
The fire 炎 in a gem 王; 炎 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5132nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+7430 |
Shuowen | “琰，璧上起美色也。从玉，炎聲。” |
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