沇
Yǎn

flowing and engulfing

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

water

允
允 Sound component
yǔn allow, permit

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhanglonʔ

說文解字

水。出河東東垣王屋山，東爲泲。从水允聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)