颜回

顏回

Yán Huí

proper noun

Meanings

1 Yan Hui (521–481 BC), Confucius's favourite disciple

颜渊 Yán Yuān Yan Hui · historical figure, 521–481 BC

Characters

Examples

HSK 5

颜回家里很穷，却一直过得很快乐。

Yán Huí jiālǐ hěn qióng, què yìzhí guò de hěn kuàilè.

Yan Hui's family was very poor, yet he was always happy.

HSK 7-9

颜回是孔子最喜欢的学生。

Yán Huí shì Kǒngzǐ zuì xǐhuan de xuésheng.

Yan Hui was Confucius's favourite student.

Tips

history

His courtesy name was 子渊, so he is also called 颜渊, the name of Book 12 of the 《论语》. Confucius praised him because he 不迁怒，不贰过, 'did not take his anger out on others or make the same mistake twice', and when he died young the master cried that Heaven was destroying him.

usage

In the Analects Confucius calls him by his given name, 回, as in 回也不改其乐, 'Hui never lost his joy'.

Stroke Order

颜 yán

回 huí