Chinese Character Wiki

筵

yán

feast

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 延 represents the sound.

Components
⺮ meaning component

⺮  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

⺮ is a component form of 竹.

延 sound component

延  Sound component

yán

  

delay

Evolution

筵 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
筵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
筵 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

筵  

yán

feast; bamboo mat for sitting

Most common words with 筵
Freq.
Word
Meaning

筵席

banquet

筵

bamboo mat for sitting

喜筵

wedding banquet

盛筵

grand banquet

酒筵

feast

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*la[n]

yen

yán

bamboo mat


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3876th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+7B75

Shuowen

“筵，竹席也。从竹，延聲。《周禮》曰：‘度堂以筵，筵一丈。’”


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