"Yan" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 yǎn eye / small hole / crux (of a matter) / CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1] / classifier for big hollow things (wells, stoves, pots etc)
 yán words / speech / to say / to talk
 yán to grind / study / research
广 yǎn "house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 / etc
 yàn to examine / to test / to check
 yán tight (closely sealed) / stern / strict / rigorous / severe / father
 yǎn to develop / to evolve / to practice / to perform / to play / to act
 yān cigarette or pipe tobacco / CL:根[gen1] / smoke / mist / vapour / CL:縷|缕[lu:3] / tobacco plant / (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke
 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
 yán flame / inflammation / -itis
 yán variant of 巖|岩[yan2]
 yǎn to cover up / to close / to surprise
 yán Japanese variant of 顏|颜[yan2]
 yàn (bound form) to loathe / to be fed up with / (literary) to satiate / to satisfy
 Yān Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern 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
 yàn variant of 燕[yan4]
 yán salt / CL:粒[li4]
 yān narrow pass / throat / pharynx
 yàn to swallow
 yàn variant of 艷|艳[yan4]
 yàn variant of 宴[yan4]
 yàn variant of 焰[yan4]
 yān dark red
 yǎn to spread out / to develop / to overflow / to amplify / superfluous
 Yán Yama / gate of village / surname Yan
 yān where / how
 yàn variant of 雁[yan4]
 yàn accomplished / elegant
 yān to flood / to submerge / to drown / to irritate the skin (of liquids) / to delay
 yán variant of 檐[yan2]
 yān variant of 閹|阉[yan1] / to castrate / variant of 淹[yan1] / to delay
 yǎn suddenly / abruptly / hastily / to cover / to surround
 yàn weir
 yān lovely / sweet
 yǎn majestic / dignified
 yàn proverb
 yán slug
 yàn late / quiet
 yān to castrate / a castrate / neuter
 yán bamboo mat for sitting
 yān to inundate / to bury / to cover up / obscured / submerged
 yàn ink-stone
 yǎn to lie supine / to stop / to fall down
 yān to salt / to pickle / to cure (meat) / to marinate
 yān variant of 胭[yan1]
 yǎn to have a nightmare
 yán beautiful
 yàn false
 yàn to extend condolences
 Yǎn see 兗州|兖州[Yan3 zhou1]
 yǎn mole
 yān see 閼氏|阏氏[yan1 zhi1]
 yǎn gem / glitter of gems
 yàn to eat to the full
 yān variant of 煙|烟[yan1] / cigarette / tobacco / smoke
 yǎn operculum (Latin: little lid) / a covering flap (in various branches of anatomy)
 yān used in 懨懨|恹恹[yan1 yan1]
 Yān surname Yan / name of a district in Henan
 yàn variant of 焰[yan4]
 Yán variant of 閻|阎[Yan2] / surname Yan
 yàn tossing of billows
 yǎn place name
 yàn strong (of tea)
 yǎn foment / valve
 yàn to decide judicially
 yān name of a mountain in Gansu
 yān variant of 湮[yan1]
 yǎn sharp
 yán variant of 研[yan2]
 yán dangerous
 yán boundary
 yǎn Hemidactylus bowringii
 yán cap tassels
 yàn quail-like bird
 yàn variant of 宴[yan4]
 yán variant of 檐
 yán goat (archaic)
 yán bamboo mat / feast, banquet
 yǎn high and bright
 yàn variant of 宴[yan4]
 yán variant of 顏|颜
 yǎn black spots on body
 yǎn high and bright
 yǎn black spots on body
 yán old variant of 沿[yan2]
 yàn quail
 yàn japanese variant for 艷|艳
 yàn variant of 宴 / feast / repose
 yān variant of 淹[yan1] / to flood
 yān rouge
 yán cliff
 yán grind fine / study / research
 yán cliff
 Yán (place name)
 yǎn peak of mountain
 yǎn to cover / trap
 yǎn upright bar for fastening a door
 yǎn cover up / to surprise
 yǎn (tree)
 yǎn archaic variant of 兗|兖[Yan3]
 yǎn earthenware vessel
 yǎn fragrant odor
 yǎn mudfish
 yàn condole with
 yàn to swallow
 yàn flame
 yàn variant of 艷|艳[yan4]
 yàn wild goose
 yàn fraudulent price
 yǎn to hide, to secrete, to repress / to bend
 yǎn the movement of a fish's mouth at the surface of the water
 yǎn cheerful
 yǎn spear
 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
 yǎn archaic variant of 進|进[jin4]
 yán Japanese variant of 嚴|严
 yān correct / suitable / to suit sb / just now (Cantonese)
 yán Japanese variant of 鹽|盐
 yán variant of 妍 / beautiful
 yán variant of 岩[yan2] / variant of 嚴|严[yan2]
 yǎn (of cloud) forming or rising
 yàn variant of 焰[yan4]
 yān black bamboo
 yàn variant of 燕[yan4], swallow
 yán "speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]
 yàn Japanese variant of 驗|验
 Yān name of an immortal / ancient place name / surname Yan
 yán variant of 沿[yan2]
 yān old variant of 崦[yan1]
 yán Japanese variant of 巖|岩[yan2]
 yǎn variant of 巘|𪩘[yan3]
 yán old variant of 炎[yan2]
 yàn old variant of 焰[yan4]
 yān a kind of jade
 yàn old variant of 雁[yan4]
 yán (used in naming bitterns and several other species of heron) / also pr. [jian1]
𪩘 yǎn peak of mountain
 yàn (used in place names)
𫄧 yán cap tassels
 Yān (archaic) river name
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