yān
castrate
Phonosemantic compound. 門 represents the meaning and 奄 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.6819% of movies
3116th most common character in movies
3814th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+95B9 |
Shuowen | “閹，豎也。宮中奄閽閉門者。从門，奄聲。” |
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