"Yan" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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眼 yǎn eye (CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1]) / (often used with 一[yi1]) a look / a glance / small hole / (bound form) salient point / classifier for wells, cave-dwellings etc
言 yán words / speech / to say / to talk
研 yán to grind / study / research
广 yǎn "house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 / etc
验 yàn to examine / to test / to check
严 yán tight (closely sealed) / stern / strict / rigorous / severe / father
演 yǎn to perform (a play etc) / to stage (a show) / (bound form) to develop / to play out / to carry out (a task)
烟 yān tobacco (variant of 煙|烟[yan1])
延 yán to prolong / to extend / to delay
沿 yàn riverside (often with 兒|儿 / erhua)
沿 yán along / to follow (a line, tradition etc) / to carry on / to trim (a border with braid, tape etc) / border / edge
炎 yán flame / inflammation / -itis
岩 yán variant of 巖|岩[yan2]
掩 yǎn to cover up / to conceal / to close (a door, book etc) / (coll.) to get (one's fingers etc) caught when closing a door or lid / (literary) to launch a surprise attack
颜 yán Japanese variant of 顏|颜[yan2]
厌 yàn (bound form) to loathe / to be fed up with / (literary) to satiate / to satisfy
燕 Yān Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337-370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409-436) / surname Yan
燕 yàn variant of 燕[yan4]
盐 yán salt / CL:粒[li4]
咽 yān throat / pharynx / narrow pass
咽 yàn to swallow
艳 yàn bright / fresh and attractive / glamorous / (bound form) amorous / romantic / (literary) to admire / to envy
宴 yàn variant of 宴[yan4]
焰 yàn variant of 焰[yan4]
殷 yān dark red
衍 yǎn to spread out / to develop / to overflow / to amplify / superfluous
阎 Yán (literary) the gate of a lane
焉 yān where / how
雁 yàn variant of 雁[yan4]
彦 yàn accomplished / elegant
淹 yān to flood / to submerge / to drown / to irritate the skin (of liquids) / to delay
檐 yán variant of 檐[yan2]
奄 yān variant of 閹|阉[yan1] / to castrate / variant of 淹[yan1] / to delay
奄 yǎn suddenly / abruptly / hastily / to cover / to surround
堰 yàn weir
嫣 yān (literary) lovely / sweet
俨 yǎn majestic / dignified
谚 yàn proverb
蜒 yán slug / used in 蜿蜒[wan1yan2]
晏 yàn late / quiet
阉 yān to castrate / a castrate / neuter
筵 yán bamboo mat for sitting
湮 yān (literary) to sink into oblivion / (literary) to silt up / Taiwan pr. [yin1]
砚 yàn ink-stone
偃 yǎn to lie supine / to stop / to fall down
腌 yān to salt / to pickle / to cure (meat) / to marinate
胭 yān variant of 胭[yan1]
魇 yǎn to have a nightmare
妍 yán beautiful
赝 yàn false
唁 yàn to extend condolences
兖 Yǎn used in 兗州|兖州[Yan3zhou1]
鼹 yǎn mole
阏 yān see 閼氏|阏氏[yan1 zhi1]
琰 yǎn gem / glitter of gems
餍 yàn to eat to the full
菸 yān variant of 煙|烟[yan1] / cigarette / tobacco / smoke
厣 yǎn operculum (Latin: little lid) / a covering flap (in various branches of anatomy)
恹 yān used in 懨懨|恹恹[yan1yan1]
鄢 Yān surname Yan / name of a district in Henan
焱 yàn variant of 焰[yan4]
闫 Yán surname Yan
滟 yàn tossing of billows
郾 yǎn place name
酽 yàn (of tea, wine etc) strong / (of ink, aroma etc) thick / (of a color) deep / rich
罨 yǎn foment / valve
谳 yàn to decide judicially
崦 yān name of a mountain in Gansu
洇 yān variant of 湮[yan1]
剡 yǎn sharp
硏 yán variant of 研[yan2]
阽 yán dangerous
埏 yán boundary
蝘 yǎn Hemidactylus bowringii
綖 yán cap tassels
鷃 yàn quail-like bird
䜩 yàn variant of 宴[yan4]
簷 yán variant of 檐
麣 yán goat (archaic)
莚 yán bamboo mat / feast, banquet
龑 yǎn high and bright
醼 yàn variant of 宴[yan4]
顔 yán variant of 顏|颜
黡 yǎn black spots on body
䶮 yǎn high and bright
黶 yǎn black spots on body
鈆 yán old variant of 沿[yan2]
鴳 yàn quail
艶 yàn japanese variant for 艷|艳
讌 yàn variant of 宴 / feast / repose
淊 yān variant of 淹[yan1] / to flood
臙 yān rouge
嵒 yán cliff
揅 yán (literary) variant of 研[yan2]
碞 yán cliff
郔 Yán (place name)
巘 yǎn peak of mountain
弇 yǎn to cover / trap
扊 yǎn upright bar for fastening a door
揜 yǎn cover up / to surprise
棪 yǎn (tree)
沇 yǎn old variant of 兗|兖[yan3]
甗 yǎn earthenware vessel
馣 yǎn fragrant odor
鰋 yǎn mudfish
喭 yàn condole with
嚥 yàn to swallow
爓 yàn flame
豔 yàn variant of 艷|艳[yan4]
鴈 yàn wild goose
傿 yàn fraudulent price
匽 yǎn to hide, to secrete, to repress / to bend
噞 yǎn the movement of a fish's mouth at the surface of the water
惔 yǎn cheerful
戭 yǎn spear
隒 yǎn the appearance of a mountain, as if two pots were standing one upon the other / the steep bank of a stream / a rough mountain path
嬿 yàn lovely
乵 yǎn archaic variant of 進|进[jin4]
厳 yán Japanese variant of 嚴|严
啱 yān correct / suitable / to suit sb / just now (Cantonese)
塩 yán Japanese variant of 鹽|盐
姸 yán variant of 妍 / beautiful
嵓 yán variant of 岩[yan2] / variant of 嚴|严[yan2]
渰 yǎn (of cloud) forming or rising
燄 yàn variant of 焰[yan4]
篶 yān black bamboo
觾 yàn variant of 燕[yan4], swallow
讠 yán "speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]
験 yàn Japanese variant of 驗|验
傿 Yān name of an immortal / ancient place name / surname Yan
㳂 yán variant of 沿[yan2]
嶖 yān old variant of 崦[yan1]
巌 yán Japanese variant of 巖|岩[yan2]
巚 yǎn variant of 巘|𪩘[yan3]
炏 yán old variant of 炎[yan2]
焔 yàn old variant of 焰[yan4]
珚 yān a kind of jade
鳫 yàn old variant of 雁[yan4]
鳽 yán (used in naming bitterns and several other species of heron) / also pr. [jian1]
𪩘 yǎn peak of mountain
觃 yàn (used in place names)
𫄧 yán cap tassels
漹 Yān (archaic) river name
铅 yán used in 鉛山|铅山[Yan2shan1], a county in Jiangxi
芫 yán used in 芫荽[yan2 sui5]
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