yǔn

a tribe of Scythian nomads

Components
犭 meaning component

  Meaning component

quǎn

  

dog

animal

允 sound component

  Sound component

yǔn

  

allow, permit

Evolution

狁 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
狁 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

yǔn

a tribe of Scythian nomads; name of a tribe

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[l]u[r]ʔ

ywinX

yǔn

獫狁 xjemX.ywinX (name of a northern tribe)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6520th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+72C1


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