yán
feast
Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 延 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 筵
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
banquet | ||
bamboo mat for sitting | ||
wedding banquet | ||
grand banquet | ||
feast |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*la[n] | yen | yán | bamboo mat |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3876th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+7B75 |
Shuowen | “筵,竹席也。从竹,延聲。《周禮》曰:‘度堂以筵,筵一丈。’” |
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