奄
yǎnyān

to enclose

奄 yǎn
suddenly
suddenly; abruptly; hastily
to cover
(literary) to cover; to include or contain everything
faint
(bound form) breathing feebly; on the verge of death
Yan
a Chinese surname
奄 yān
to flood
variant of 淹 yān, meaning to flood or submerge
to castrate
variant of 阉 yān, meaning to castrate or a eunuch
to stay
(literary) to stay; to delay; to be stranded; (of time) a long duration; variant of 淹 yān

Cross-References

Variant of

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,462nd most common 5.55 per million
Movie subtitles
3,126th most common 2.84 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.090 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.317 per million

Details
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+5944

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)