yàn
proverb
Elegant 彦 words 言; 彦 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ŋra[n]-s | ngjenH | yàn | saying, proverb |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.2174% of movies
3302nd most common character in movies
3625th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8AFA |
Shuowen | “諺，傳言也。从言，彥聲。” |
Sources
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