Chinese Character Wiki

腌

yān

salt

Meat ⺼ left 奄 in salt; 奄 also provides the pronunciation

Components
⺼ meaning component

⺼  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

奄 sound,meaning component

奄  Sound Meaning component

yǎn, yān

  

ere long

Evolution

腌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
腌 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

腌  

yān

salt, pickle; be dirty; variant of 醃|腌[yān]

腌 (醃) 

yān

to salt; to pickle; to cure (meat); to marinate

Most common words with 腌
Freq.
Word
Meaning

腌

to salt

腌制

marinated

腌渍

to pickle

腌货

pickles

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.4737% of movies

3023rd most common character in movies

4219th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+814C

Shuowen

“腌，漬肉也。从肉，奄聲。”


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