Unicode: U+8C54

Pinyin: yàn

Definition

* 艷麗。容色美好。 * 光彩;光澤和顏色。晋潘岳 * 照耀;閃耀。三國魏何晏 * 美女。唐李白 * 指男女情愛之事。如:豔情;豔事。南朝梁王筠 * 美;好看。晋范甯 * 欣羡。如:豔羨;豔稱。 * 古代楚地歌謠。 * 唐代樂曲的引子。明楊慎

plump, voluptuous, beautiful

Structure

豔 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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Clerical Script
c. 300 BCE–220 CE (emerged late Warring States/Qin; dominant Han)
A practical script that evolved from late Warring States/Qin writing; it matured and became dominant in the Han dynasty, favoring faster, more rectilinear strokes.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