yǎnYǎn

cease

Components

Meaning component
rén person

person

Sound component
yǎn, yàn to hide

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartʔjonXʔa[n]ʔbend down; Yǎn (ancient state in Shāndōng)
Zhengzhangqanʔ
Unicodeqiæ̌n

說文解字

僵也。从人匽聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica