延
yán HSK4

delay

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Original meaning: walk

Phonosemantic compound. 廴 represents the meaning and 正 represents the sound.

Components

正
正 Sound component
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 正 than it was in ancient scripts.
廴
廴 Meaning component

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 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 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-Sagartyenla[n] extend

說文解字

《說文》：“延，長行也。从，丿聲。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.135
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)