yán
face
Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 彥 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.ŋˤrar | ngaen | yán | face, forehead |
*C.ŋˤrar | ngaen | yán | surname |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 21.9446% of movies
1472nd most common character in movies
1545th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+984F |
Shuowen | “顏，眉目之閒也。从頁，彥聲。，籀文。” |
Sources
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