Unicode: U+8273

Pinyin: yàn

Definition

* 色彩鲜明。 ~丽。~冶。鲜~。娇~。百花争~。 * 羡慕。 ~羡。 * 旧时指关于爱情方面的。 ~事。~诗。~史。 * 美丽,亦指美女:"吴娃与越~,窈窕夸铅红。"

beautiful, sexy, voluptuous

Structure

艳 graph

Related substructures

Precursors

Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
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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