yàn

swallow (family Hirundinidae); variant of yàn

#1705

Character data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency 1705th character
Radical ⽕ (86.12)
Strokes 16
Index # 3319

Definitions

燕 yàn
  1. 1. swallow (family Hirundinidae)
  2. 2. old variant of yàn
燕 yān
  1. 1. surname Yan
  2. 2. Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern Hebei and Liaoning
  3. 3. north Hebei
  4. 4. the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan qián yān (337-370), Later Yan hòu yān (384-409), Southern Yan nán yān (398-410), Northern Yan běi yān (409-436)

Stroke order

燕 stroke order diagram
燕 stroke order animation

Words containing 燕

Word Meaning
sandwich tern seabird
Pai Hsiao-yen (daughter of Pai Ping-ping)
Pai Hsiao-yen (daughter of Pai Ping-ping)
white-eyed river martin
Leach's storm petrel seabird
Aleutian tern, a small seabird
Aleutian tern, a small seabird
common house martin, a small swallow bird
common house martin, a small swallow
(bird species of China) little tern (Sternula albifrons)
(bird species of China) little tern (Sternula albifrons)
Himalayan swiftlet bird
Himalayan swiftlet bird species
(bird species of China) roseate tern (Sterna dougallii)
(bird species of China) roseate tern (Sterna dougallii)
dusky crag martin, a swallow-like bird
dusky crag martin bird species
wire-tailed swallow bird
wire-tailed swallow (a kind of swallow)
Jenny Hu
(bird species of China) common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
(bird species of China) common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
complacent; blind to coming danger
feel safe but danger is coming
grey-throated martin, a small swallow