燕
燕 in English
- Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337-370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409-436) / surname Yan
- swallow (family Hirundinidae) / old variant of 宴[yan4]
How it used to be written
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 7 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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燕子飞得非常快。
A swallow flies very swiftly.
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许多燕子不久就要从南方飞来了。
Many swallows will come soon from the south.