yǎn

earthenware vessel in two parts

Evolution

甗 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
甗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
甗 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Definitions

 

yǎn

earthenware vessel in two parts; earthenware vessel

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ŋrar-s

ngjenH

yǎn

boiler

*ŋar

ngjon

yǎn

boiler


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Unicode

U+7517

Shuowen

“甗,甑也。一曰穿也。从瓦,鬳聲。讀若言。”


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