Unicode: U+5830

Pinyin: yàn

Definition

* 挡水的堤坝。 堤~。~塘。都江~(在中国四川省,是闻名中外的古代水利工程,已有两千多年的历史)

dam; embankment, dike, bank

Structure

堰 graph

Related substructures

Precursors

Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
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Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC