焉
yān

thereupon

焉 yān
[pronoun/prepositional] adjective
(literary) pronoun or prepositional phrase acting as a substitute for 之 zhī or 于 yú plus a pronoun, meaning him, her, it, them, or in, at, or from it
how
(literary) how; why; by what means; often used in rhetorical questions
where
(literary) where; in what place.
[sentence-final]
(literary) a sentence-final particle expressing a state, a degree, or a certain mood such as affirmation or exclamation.
[suffix]
(literary) a suffix used after adjectives or adverbs to describe an appearance or state, similar to 然 rán.
Yan
(bound form) a Chinese surname Yan.
thereupon
(literary) then; thereupon; consequently; used to indicate a result or a cause-and-effect relationship between clauses

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,526th most common 18.7 per million
Movie subtitles
2,989th most common 3.57 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.13 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
7.75 per million

Details
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+7109

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)