His surname is Yan and his given name is Qing - he's my colleague.
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As a single character 晏 also has a literary meaning of 'late' (as in 晏起 'to rise late') and 'peaceful' (as in 河清海晏 'rivers clear and seas calm' - a peaceful era). The character pictures the sun 日 over an 安 'peace' element.
Sun radical at the top, the indexing radical. 晏 means late in the day or calm and at ease - both senses anchored in time-of-day imagery, the sun riding high and steady. The radical places 晏 in the sun family with 时 hour, 早 early, 晚 late, 晴 clear-sky.
Bottom 安 supplies the sound - ān shifting to yàn. There is a quiet semantic echo: 安 means at peace, and 晏 carries the same untroubled sense in compounds like 安晏. Best known today as the surname of Spring and Autumn statesman 晏婴.
Spring and Autumn period statesman of the State of Qi (c. 578-500 BCE), famous for his sharp wit and short stature; subject of the classic 晏子春秋 (Annals of Master Yan).
