艳遇
yàn​yù

romance

艳 yàn beautiful Simplified

Lush 丰 and sexy 色

Components

丰
丰 Meaning component
fēng luxuriant
色
色 Meaning component
sè color

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

滟

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

滟

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

遇 yù meet

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 禺 represents the sound.

Components

辶
辶 Meaning component
chuò walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

禺
禺 Sound component
yú, yù, ǒu district

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Jin 266-420 AD
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 Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartngjuHŋ(r)o-s meet with

說文解字

逢也。从辵禺聲。

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

艷 yàn beautiful Traditional

Lush 豐 and sexy 色

Components

豐
豐 Meaning component
abundant
色
色 Meaning component
sè color

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhanglams

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang