Chinese Character Wiki

鴈

yàn

wild goose

Components
厂 unknown component

厂  Unknown component

hǎn, chǎng

  

cliff, (roof)

亻 sound component

亻  Sound component

rén

  

person

鳥 meaning component

鳥  Meaning component

niǎo, diǎo

  

bird

bird

Evolution

鴈 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
鴈 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
鴈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鴈 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

鴈  

yàn

wild goose

雁 (鴈) 

yàn

variant of 雁[yàn]

Most common words with 鴈
Freq.
Word
Meaning

雁

wild goose

大雁

wild goose

沉鱼落雁

lit. fish sink, goose alights (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子); fig. female beauty captivating even the birds and beasts

雁塔

Yanta District of Xi’an 西安市[Xī​'ān​Shì], Shaanxi

鸿雁

(bird species of China) swan goose (Anser cygnoides)

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

贗

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

贗

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.[ŋ]ˤrar-s

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yàn

wild goose


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2553rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+9D08

Shuowen

“鴈，也。从鳥、人，厂聲。”


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