Read Edit View history 狺 yín the snarling of dogs Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Components 犭 犭 Meaning component quǎn dog dog 言 言 Sound component yán speech Character Evolution Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC Regular Modern ▼ More ▲ Less Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangŋrɯnŋɯn Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang Historical images Academia Sinica