Chinese Character Wiki

沇

yǎn

flowing and engulfing

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

water

允 sound component

允  Sound component

yǔn

  

allow, permit

Evolution

沇 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
沇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
沇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
沇 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

沇  

yǎn

flowing and engulfing; brimming; archaic variant of 兗|兖[Yǎn]

沇  

Yǎn

surname Yan

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6C87

Shuowen

“沇，水。出河東東垣王屋山，東為泲。从水，允聲。沿，古文沇。”


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