yán
adjective #14,802

Meanings

  1. 1 beautiful
  2. 2 gorgeous (literary)

Examples

Chūntiān bǎihuā zhēngyán.
In spring, hundreds of flowers compete in beauty.
Yán shì yī gè hěn shòu huānyíng de nǚhái míngzi.
Yan is a very popular name for girls.

Tips

usage
is literary and rarely used alone in modern speech. It appears in set phrases like (flowers competing in beauty) and (beautiful and ugly). Very popular as a character in girls' names.
memory
The character combines (woman) and (open/bloom) — a woman in full bloom, radiantly beautiful.

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