yán

face

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
彦 sound component

  Sound component

yàn

  

elegant

页 meaning component

  Meaning component

xié

  

page

Depicts a head.

Evolution

颜 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
颜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
颜 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
颜 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

yán

face, facial appearance; color; face; countenance

() 

Yán

surname Yan

() 

yán

Japanese variant of |[yán]

Most common words with 颜
Freq.
Word
Meaning

颜色

color

color

颜料

paint

颜面

face

容颜

mien

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 21.9446% of movies

1472nd most common character in movies

1545th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Traditional

Unicode

U+989C


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