yàn

plump

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
盍 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

what? why not?

豐 sound component

  Sound component

fēng

  

abundant

Evolution

豔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
豔 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
豔 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

yàn

plump, voluptuous, beautiful

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yàn

variant of |[yàn]

Most common words with 豔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

colorful

鲜艳

bright-colored

美艳

glamorous

艳丽

gorgeous

娇艳

tender and beautiful

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.2561% of movies

2204th most common character in movies

2104th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

28

Unicode

U+8C54

Shuowen

“豔,好而長也。从豐,豐,大也,盇聲。《春秋傳》曰:‘美而豔’。”


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