异焉 yìyān to feel surprised Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 异 異 yì adjective to feel surprised (bound form) to be surprised; to feel amazed, as in 诧异 chàyì or 惊异 jīngyì焉 yān adjective [pronoun/prepositional] (literary) pronoun or prepositional phrase acting as a substitute for 之 zhī or 于 yú plus a pronoun, meaning him, her, it, them, or in, at, or from it