yàn

quail

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartʔænHʔˤ<r>a[r]-sa kind of quail
Zhengzhangqraːns

說文解字

雇也。从鳥安聲。

Sources

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

𫛩 yàn, ān, è quail Simplified

No origin information available for this character yet.

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