yán
village gate
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 閻
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
same as 閻羅王|阎罗王 | ||
Yama | ||
Yan Xishan (1883-1960), warlord in Shanxi | ||
Yama, King of Hell | ||
same as 閻羅王|阎罗王 |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ][a]m | yem | yán | gate over street or lane |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2473rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+95BB |
Shuowen | “閻，里中門也。从門，臽聲。壛，閻或从土。” |
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