Chinese Character Wiki

閼

è, yān

block

Components
門 meaning component

門  Meaning component

mén

  

door

gate

於 sound component

於  Sound component

yú, yū, wū

  

in

Evolution

閼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
閼 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

阏 (閼) 

è

block, obstruct, stop up, conceal; to block; to restrain; to control

阏 (閼) 

yān

see 閼氏|阏氏[yān​zhī]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qˤat

'at

è

repress; cease


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5091st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

阏

Unicode

U+95BC

Shuowen

“閼，遮也。从門，於聲。”


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