Yān

name of a district in Honan

Components

Sound component
yān, yí thereupon
Meaning component
hill, place

place

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartʔjen[ʔ](r)a[n](place name)
ʔjon[ʔ]a[n](place name)
ʔjonX[ʔ]a[n]ʔ(place name)
Zhengzhangqran
qanʔ
qans

說文解字

南郡縣。孝惠三年改名宜城。从邑焉聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica