晏
yàn

peaceful

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 安 represents the sound.

Components

日
日 Meaning component
rì sun
安
安 Sound component
ān peaceful

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 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 Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

鼹

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagart'aenHʔˤ<r>a[n]-s peace, rest
'enHʔˤe[n]-s rest (v.)

說文解字

《說文》：“晏，天清也。从日，安聲。”

Sources

Character origin
古文字詁林編纂委員會《古文字詁林》 Vol. 6, p.397
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)