唵 ǎn used in Buddhist texts to transliterate non-Chinese sounds Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 奄 represents the sound. Components 口 口 Meaning component kǒu, kou mouth 奄 奄 Sound component yǎn, yān to enclose Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangqoːmʔ Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang
