in English

yàn
bright / fresh and attractive / glamorous / (bound form) amorous / romantic / (literary) to admire / to envy

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 豔, the traditional character: 艳 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 豔 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 豔 Clerical script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 他看见色彩鲜艳的鸟、花朵和树叶。

    He saw brightly-colored birds, flowers and leaves.

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