衍
yǎn HSK7

overflow

衍 yǎn
to spread out noun
(bound form) to spread out; to develop; to multiply or proliferate, as in 繁衍 fán​yǎn
to elaborate verb
(bound form) to elaborate on; to amplify or develop a theme, as in 敷衍 fū​yǎn
superfluous
(bound form) redundant; used to describe extra or erroneous characters added during the copying or printing of a text
to overflow
(literary) to overflow, as water or liquid might spill over or flood
surname
a Chinese surname

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,437th most common 20.8 per million
Movie subtitles
2,985th most common 3.57 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
2.34 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+884D

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