Chinese Character Wiki

諺

yàn

proverb

Elegant 彦 words 言; 彦 also provides the pronunciation

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

彦 sound,meaning component

彦  Sound Meaning component

yàn

  

elegant

Evolution

諺 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
諺 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
諺 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
諺 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

谚 (諺) 

yàn

proverb, maxim; proverb

Most common words with 諺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

谚语

proverb

谚

proverb

民谚

folk saying

农谚

farmers' saying

古谚

old saying

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ŋra[n]-s

ngjenH

yàn

saying, proverb


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.2174% of movies

3302nd most common character in movies

3625th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

谚

Unicode

U+8AFA

Shuowen

“諺，傳言也。从言，彥聲。”


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