燕
yànyān HSK7

swallow (bird)

燕 yàn frequency
variant 鷰
swallow noun
a small migratory bird with long wings and a forked tail, commonly known as 燕子 yàn​zi
[banquet/leisure]
(bound form) to host a dinner party; also refers to comfort, joy, or leisure
燕 yān
Yan state
a vassal state during the Zhou dynasty and one of the seven warring states, located in present-day northern Hebei and western Liaoning
Hebei
a literary or historical name for the Hebei region
surname
a Chinese surname
Yan kingdoms
the Five Yan kingdoms during the Sixteen Kingdoms period (337–436), including Former Yan, Later Yan, Southern Yan, Northern Yan, and Western Yan

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Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,705th most common 53.4 per million
Movie subtitles
2,640th most common 6.62 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.82 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
24.8 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+71D5

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