燕
Yānyàn HSK7

swallow (bird)

燕 Yān frequency
surname Yan proper name
A Chinese surname.

燕先生是我们公司的总工程师。

Yān xiān​sheng shì wǒ​men gōng​sī de zǒng gōng​chéng​shī.

Mr. Yan is our company's chief engineer.

Yan place name
A historical vassal state of Zhou located in present-day Hebei and Liaoning, and various kingdoms during the Sixteen Kingdoms period; also a regional name for northern Hebei.

燕国是战国七雄之一。

Yān​guó shì zhàn​guó​qī​xióng zhī yī.

The State of Yan was one of the seven powerful states of the Warring States period.

燕 yàn
swallow noun
swallow (family Hirundinidae)

一只黑燕掠过平静的湖面。

yī zhī hēi yàn lüè​guò píng​jìng de hú​miàn.

A swallow skimmed across the surface of the calm lake.

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Old variant of

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)