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王岩

WángYán
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Meanings

  1. 1 a common Chinese personal name (王 surname + 岩 'rock / cliff')

Examples

王岩是我中学的同学。
Wáng Yán shì wǒ zhōngxué de tóngxué.
Wang Yan is my classmate from middle school.
新来的工程师叫王岩。
Xīn lái de gōngchéngshī jiào Wáng Yán.
The new engineer is called Wang Yan.

Tips

usage
王岩 is extremely common — 王 is China's #1 surname and 岩 (solid rock) is a popular masculine single-character given name. In Chinese news archives there are dozens of different 王岩s (artists, officials, athletes).
mistakes
Don't confuse pinyin: 岩 is yán (second tone), not *yàn. The character 岩 depicts a mountain 山 on top of a rock 石.

Stroke Order

王 wáng
岩 yán