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yān

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yān Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
yān | yan1
English translation
a mountain in Kansu where the sun is supposed to set at night

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About yān

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Number of strokes

11

Traditional form

yān

Contains the radical

Shān

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

Learning hint

mountain

Etymology of yān

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

山奄

Semantic compound

Shān

Phonetic compound

yǎn

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Words with yān

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
yān name of a mountain in Gansu yān
日薄崦嵫 rì bó Yān zī lit. the sun sets in Yanzi (idiom)日薄崦嵫 rì bó Yān zī

yān Decomposition & Compounds

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