Chinese Character Wiki

奄

yǎn, yān

ere long

Lightning (电) is a big (大) and sudden and abrupt phenomenon.

Components
大 meaning component

大  Meaning component

dà, dài

  

big

电 meaning component

电  Meaning component

diàn

  

electricity

Evolution

奄 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
奄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
奄 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
奄 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

奄  

yǎn

ere long; remain, tarry; feeble; suddenly; abruptly; hastily; to cover; to surround

奄  

Yǎn

surname Yan

奄  

yān

variant of 閹|阉[yān]; to castrate; variant of 淹[yān]; to delay

Most common words with 奄
Freq.
Word
Meaning

奄奄一息

dying

奄

suddenly

气息奄奄

to have only a breath of life (idiom)

Component uses

Meaning component in 3 characters (0 verified)

庵 腌 醃

Sound component in 15 characters (0 verified)

掩 淹 俺 庵 阉 閹 腌 醃 鵪 鹌 罨 崦 埯 唵 殗

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ʔ(r)omʔ

'jemX

yǎn

cover


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.0412% of movies

3127th most common character in movies

3462nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5944

Shuowen

“奄，覆也。大有餘也。又欠也。从大，从申。申，展也。”


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