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Simplified Pīnyīn		English Definition	Traditional HSK
眼 yǎn	眼 \| 眼* \| *眼	eye (CL:隻｜只,雙｜双) / (often used with 一) a look; a glance / small hole / (bound form) salient point / classifier for wells, cave-dwellings etc	HSK 2


烟 yān	烟 \| 烟* \| *烟	cigarette or pipe tobacco / CL: 根 / smoke / mist / vapour / CL: 縷｜缕 / tobacco plant / (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke	煙 HSK 3


演 yǎn	演 \| 演* \| *演	to perform (a play etc); to stage (a show) / (bound form) to develop; to play out; to carry out (a task)	HSK 3


烟 yān	烟 \| 烟* \| *烟	tobacco (variant of 煙｜烟)	菸 HSK 3


盐 yán	盐 \| 盐* \| *盐	salt / CL: 粒	鹽 HSK 4


严 yán	严 \| 严* \| *严	tight (closely sealed) / stern / strict / rigorous / severe / father	嚴 HSK 4


沿 yán	沿 \| 沿* \| *沿	along / to follow (a line, tradition etc) / to carry on / to trim (a border with braid, tape etc) / border / edge	HSK 6


淹 yān	淹 \| 淹* \| *淹	to flood / to submerge / to drown / to irritate the skin (of liquids) / to delay	HSK 7-9


延 yán	延 \| 延* \| *延	to prolong / to extend / to delay	HSK 7-9


验 yàn	验 \| 验* \| *验	to examine / to test / to check	驗 HSK 7-9


咽 yàn	咽 \| 咽* \| *咽	to swallow	嚥 HSK 7-9


验 yàn	验 \| 验* \| *验	variant of 驗｜验	騐 HSK 7-9


咽 yàn	咽 \| 咽* \| *咽	variant of 嚥｜咽	HSK 7-9


掩 yǎn	掩 \| 掩* \| *掩	to cover up; to conceal / to close (a door, book etc) / (coll.) to get (one's fingers etc) caught when closing a door or lid / (literary) to launch a surprise attack


闫 Yán	闫 \| 闫* \| *闫	surname Yan	閆


铅 yán	铅 \| 铅* \| *铅	used in 鉛山｜铅山, a county in Jiangxi	鉛


魇 yǎn	魇 \| 魇* \| *魇	to have a nightmare	魘


广 yǎn	广 \| 广* \| *广	"house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etc


言 yán	言 \| 言* \| *言	words / speech / to say / to talk


燕 Yān	燕 \| 燕* \| *燕	Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337–370), Later Yan 後燕｜后燕 (384–409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398–410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409–436) / surname Yan


陕北 Shǎnběi	陕北 \| 陕北* \| *陕北	Shanbei, northern Shaanxi province, including Yulin 榆林 and Yan'an 延安, a Holy Land of Mao's revolution 革命聖地｜革命圣地	陝北


黄龙 Huánglóng	黄龙 \| 黄龙* \| *黄龙	Huanglong county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi	黃龍


宴 yàn	宴 \| 宴* \| *宴	(bound form) feast / repose


檐 yán	檐 \| 檐* \| *檐	eaves / ledge or brim


殷 yān	殷 \| 殷* \| *殷	dark red


焰 yàn	焰 \| 焰* \| *焰	flame


焉 yān	焉 \| 焉* \| *焉	where / how


燕太子丹 Yān Tàizǐ Dān	燕太子丹 \| 燕太子丹* \| *燕太子丹	Prince Dan of Yan (-226 BC), commissioned the attempted assassination of King Ying Zheng of Qin 秦嬴政 (later the First Emperor 秦始皇) by Jing Ke 荊軻｜荆轲 in 227 BC


阎 Yán	阎 \| 阎* \| *阎	surname Yan (sometimes written 閆｜闫 in recent years)	閻


阎 yán	阎 \| 阎* \| *阎	(literary) the gate of a lane	閻


严 Yán	严 \| 严* \| *严	surname Yan	嚴


延 Yán	延 \| 延* \| *延	surname Yan


研 yán	研 \| 研* \| *研	to grind / study / research


燕 yàn	燕 \| 燕* \| *燕	swallow (family Hirundinidae) / old variant of 宴


燕 yàn	燕 \| 燕* \| *燕	variant of 燕	鷰


炎 yán	炎 \| 炎* \| *炎	flame / inflammation / -itis


延长 Yáncháng	延长 \| 延长* \| *延长	Yanchang county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi	延長


艳 yàn	艳 \| 艳* \| *艳	bright; fresh and attractive; glamorous / (bound form) amorous; romantic / (literary) to admire; to envy	豔


颜 Yán	颜 \| 颜* \| *颜	surname Yan	顏


颜 yán	颜 \| 颜* \| *颜	color / face / countenance	顏


雁 yàn	雁 \| 雁* \| *雁	wild goose


岩 yán	岩 \| 岩* \| *岩	cliff / rock


妍 yán	妍 \| 妍* \| *妍	beautiful


扊 yǎn	扊 \| 扊* \| *扊	upright bar for fastening a door


宴 yàn	宴 \| 宴* \| *宴	variant of 宴	醼


砚 yàn	砚 \| 砚* \| *砚	ink-stone	硯


彦 yàn	彦 \| 彦* \| *彦	accomplished / elegant	彥


白求恩 Bái Qiú'ēn	白求恩 \| 白求恩* \| *白求恩	Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning


兖 yǎn	兖 \| 兖* \| *兖	used in 兗州｜兖州 (the name of a place in Shandong)	兗


檐 yán	檐 \| 檐* \| *檐	variant of 檐	簷


咽 yān	咽 \| 咽* \| *咽	throat; pharynx / narrow pass


厌 yàn	厌 \| 厌* \| *厌	(bound form) to loathe; to be fed up with / (literary) to satiate; to satisfy	厭


晏 Yàn	晏 \| 晏* \| *晏	surname Yan


晏 yàn	晏 \| 晏* \| *晏	late / quiet


堰 yàn	堰 \| 堰* \| *堰	weir


阉 yān	阉 \| 阉* \| *阉	to castrate / a castrate / neuter	閹


嫣 yān	嫣 \| 嫣* \| *嫣	(literary) lovely; sweet


焰 yàn	焰 \| 焰* \| *焰	variant of 焰	燄


滟 yàn	滟 \| 滟* \| *滟	tossing of billows	灩


偃 Yǎn	偃 \| 偃* \| *偃	surname Yan


偃 yǎn	偃 \| 偃* \| *偃	to lie supine / to stop / to fall down


験 yàn	験 \| 験* \| *験	Japanese variant of 驗｜验


鄢 Yān	鄢 \| 鄢* \| *鄢	surname Yan / name of a district in Henan


洛川 Luòchuān	洛川 \| 洛川* \| *洛川	Luochuan county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi


谚 yàn	谚 \| 谚* \| *谚	proverb	諺


筵 yán	筵 \| 筵* \| *筵	bamboo mat for sitting


南泥湾 Nánníwān	南泥湾 \| 南泥湾* \| *南泥湾	Nanniwan, township 45 km south of Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi / "Nanniwan", a song written in 1943 to celebrate the achievements of communist revolutionaries in Nanniwan, where the 359th brigade of the Eighth Route Army reclaimed barren land as part of a campaign to become self-sufficient in food during a blockade by enemy forces	南泥灣


俨 yǎn	俨 \| 俨* \| *俨	majestic / dignified	儼


渔阳 Yúyáng	渔阳 \| 渔阳* \| *渔阳	old place name (in Yan of Warring states, in modern Beijing city)	漁陽


燕赵 Yān Zhào	燕赵 \| 燕赵* \| *燕赵	Yan and Zhao, two of the Warring States in Hebei and Shanxi / beautiful women / women dancers and singers	燕趙


棪 yǎn	棪 \| 棪* \| *棪	(tree)


剡 yǎn	剡 \| 剡* \| *剡	sharp


郾 yǎn	郾 \| 郾* \| *郾	place name


燕京 Yānjīng	燕京 \| 燕京* \| *燕京	Yanjing, an old name for Beijing / capital of Yan at different periods


焱 yàn	焱 \| 焱* \| *焱	variant of 焰


赝 yàn	赝 \| 赝* \| *赝	false	贗


崦 yān	崦 \| 崦* \| *崦	name of a mountain in Gansu


延川 Yánchuān	延川 \| 延川* \| *延川	Yanchuan county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi


颜体 yántǐ	颜体 \| 颜体* \| *颜体	Yan Style (in Chinese calligraphy)	顏體


志丹 Zhìdān	志丹 \| 志丹* \| *志丹	Zhidan county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi


芫 yán	芫 \| 芫* \| *芫	used in 芫荽


湮 yān	湮 \| 湮* \| *湮	(literary) to sink into oblivion / (literary) to silt up / Taiwan pr. [yin1]


嬿 yàn	嬿 \| 嬿* \| *嬿	lovely


腌 yān	腌 \| 腌* \| *腌	to salt / to pickle / to cure (meat) / to marinate	醃


讠 yán	讠 \| 讠* \| *讠	"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁	訁


艳 yàn	艳 \| 艳* \| *艳	variant of 豔｜艳	艶


艳 yàn	艳 \| 艳* \| *艳	variant of 豔｜艳	艷


艳 yàn	艳 \| 艳* \| *艳	old variant of 豔｜艳	豓


唁 yàn	唁 \| 唁* \| *唁	to extend condolences


颜 yán	颜 \| 颜* \| *颜	Japanese variant of 顏｜颜	顔


雁 yàn	雁 \| 雁* \| *雁	variant of 雁	鴈


埏 yán	埏 \| 埏* \| *埏	boundary


岩 yán	岩 \| 岩* \| *岩	variant of 巖｜岩	嵒


岩 yán	岩 \| 岩* \| *岩	variant of 岩	巖


岩 yán	岩 \| 岩* \| *岩	variant of 巖｜岩	巗


富县 Fùxiàn	富县 \| 富县* \| *富县	Fu county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi	富縣


戭 yǎn	戭 \| 戭* \| *戭	spear


蜒 yán	蜒 \| 蜒* \| *蜒	slug / used in 蜿蜒


阏 yān	阏 \| 阏* \| *阏	used in 閼氏｜阏氏	閼


江郎才尽 Jiānglángcáijìn	江郎才尽 \| 江郎才尽* \| *江郎才尽	Jiang Yan has exhausted his talent (idiom) / fig. to have used up one's creative powers / to have writer's block	江郎才盡

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