沿
yán HSK6

follow a course

沿 yán
along preposition
To follow a path or line; used to indicate following a route such as a river, road, or coast.

沿这条路走到石头桥去。

yán zhè tiáo lù zǒu dào shí​tou qiáo qù.

Follow this road to the stone bridge.

edge; border noun
The border, brink, or edge of an object such as a bed, table, or body of water

戴一顶有沿的帽子。

dài yī dǐng yǒu yán de mào​zi.

Wear a hat with a brim.

to continue
To carry on or follow an existing pattern, tradition, or custom from the past.
to trim
To sew a border or edge onto a garment or fabric with braid, tape, or lace.
to go downstream
(literary) To sail or travel down a river or with the current

Cross-References

Same as

Has erhua variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,182nd most common 117.7 per million
Movie subtitles
2,022nd most common 18.7 per million appears in 10% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.31 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
70.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+6CBF

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