ǎn

personal pronoun

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

奄 sound component

  Sound component

yǎnyān

  

ere long

Evolution

俺 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
俺 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

ǎn

personal pronoun, I; I (northern dialects)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.7849% of movies

3164th most common character in movies

2749th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+4FFA

Shuowen

“俺,大也。从人,奄聲。”


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