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yǎn

flags flying

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approved by Peter Olson · Oct 16, 2020, 03:39 PM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Oct 16, 2020, 03:39 PM

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Depicts a flag on a flagpole flying in the wind.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagart'jonXqarʔ fluttering streamer

說文解字

《說文》：“，旌旗之游，蹇之皃。从中曲而下，垂。相出入也。讀若偃。古人名字子游。，古文字象形，及象旌旗之游。”

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)