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晏

yàn

Character

What 晏 means

1. late
2. quiet

Other readings

晏 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Yànsurname Yan

Words starting with 晏

• 晏婴Yàn YīngYan Ying (-c 500 BC), famous statesman from Qi of the Warring States, also known as Yanzi…
• 晏子Yàn zǐYanzi (-c 500 BC), famous statesman from Qi of the Warring States 齐国
• 晏驾yàn jiàto die (exclusively of the Emperor)
• 晏平仲Yàn Píng zhònganother name for Yan Ying 晏婴
• 晏子春秋Yàn zǐ Chūn qiūTales of Yanzi, book describing the life and wisdom of Yanzi 晏子 (-c 500 BC), famous…

Words containing 晏

• 海晏县Hǎi yàn XiànHaiyan, a county in Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海北藏族自治州
• 海晏河清hǎi yàn hé qīng(lit.) the Yellow River is clear and the seas are calm (idiom)…
• 海晏Hǎi yànsee 海晏县
• 河清海晏hé qīng hǎi yànsee 海晏河清

Characters built on 安

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

• 案àn(legal) case; incident; record
• 按ànto press; to push; to leave aside or shelve
• 氨ānammonia
• 胺àn(chemistry) amine; colloquial pr. ān; Taiwan pr. ān
• 鞍ān(bound form) saddle
• 铵ǎnammonium
• 桉ānEucalyptus globulus; Taiwan pr. àn

Characters that look like 晏

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

• 要yàoto want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should
• 泰tàisafe; peaceful; most
• 奏zòuto play music; to achieve; to present a memorial to the emperor (old)
• 姜jiāngginger
• 萎wěito wither; to drop; to decline
• 眷juàn(bound form) one's family, esp. wife and children; (literary) to regard with love and…

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
• 彦accomplished; elegant
• 砚ink-stone
• 堰weir
• 滟tossing of billows