yǎn

medical compress

Components

Meaning component
wǎng net or eye

net

Sound component
yǎn, yān to enclose

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangqromʔ
qoːb
qob

說文解字

䍑也。从网奄聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica