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彦

yàn

Character Traditional 彥

What 彦 means

1. accomplished
2. elegant

Words containing 彦

• 李彦宏Lǐ Yàn hóngRobin Li (1968–), founder and CEO of Baidu 百度
• 巴彦县Bā yàn XiànBayan, a county in Harbin City 哈尔滨市
• 萨彦岭Sà yàn LǐngSayan Mountains, on the border of Russia and Mongolia
• 韩彦直Hán Yàn zhíHan Yanzhi (1131-?), Song dynasty botanist, author of classification of orange trees 橘录
• 野田佳彦Yě tián Jiā yànNoda Yoshihiko (1957-), prime minister of Japan 2011-2012
• 高村正彦Gāo cūn Zhèng yànKOMURA Masahiko (1942-), Japanese politician, foreign minister from 1998, minister of…
• 巴彦淖尔市Bā yàn nào ěr ShìBayannur, prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region 内蒙古自治区
• 巴彦Bā yànsee 巴彦县
• 巴彦淖尔Bā yàn nào ěrsee 巴彦淖尔市

Characters built on 产

These share the phonetic component 产 (chǎn), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 铲chǎnto scrape the ground with a spade (to make it level or to remove weeds); to shovel
• 浐chǎnname of a river in Shaanxi province; see 浐河

Characters that look like 彦

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 度dùto pass; to spend (time); measure
• 质zhìcharacter; nature; quality
• 眉méieyebrow; upper margin
• 虔qiánto act with reverence; reverent
• 虏lǔprisoner of war; to capture; to take prisoner
• 扂diàndoor latch

Sounds the same

Read yàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 验to examine; to test; to check
• 厌(bound form) to loathe; to be fed up with; (literary) to satiate; to satisfy
• 宴(bound form) to entertain at a banquet; (bound form) banquet; feast; (literary) peaceful…
• 艳bright; fresh and attractive; glamorous; (bound form) amorous; romantic…
• 咽to swallow
• 焰flame
• 燕swallow (family Hirundinidae); old variant of 宴
• 雁wild goose
• 砚ink-stone
• 晏late; quiet
• 堰weir
• 滟tossing of billows