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鄢

yān

Character

What 鄢 means

1. used in {鄢陵|Yān líng} (the name of a place in Henan)

Other readings

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

• Yānsurname Yan

Words starting with 鄢

• 鄢陵县Yān líng XiànYanling, a county in Xuchang City 许昌市
• 鄢陵Yān língsee 鄢陵县

Characters that look like 鄢

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

• 斯sī(phonetic); this
• 稣sūarchaic variant of 苏; to revive
• 鄙bǐrustic; low; base
• 龈yíngums (of the teeth)
• 粼línclear (as of water)
• 靳jìnmartingale; stingy

Sounds the same

Read yān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 烟cigarette or pipe tobacco; smoke; mist
• 淹to flood; to submerge; to drown
• 焉where; how
• 殷dark red
• 阉to castrate; a castrate; neuter
• 嫣(literary) lovely; sweet
• 腌to salt; to pickle; to cure (meat)
• 咽throat; pharynx; narrow pass
• 湮(literary) to sink into oblivion; (literary) to silt up; Taiwan pr. yīn
• 胭rouge
• 啱correct; suitable; to suit sb
• 恹used in 恹恹