偃 — Chinese character
偃
yǎn
to cease, to lay down, to lay off
- Pinyin
- yǎn
- Radical
- 9 ⼈ (Man)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 亻 匽
- Formation
- pictophonetic — person; meaning component 亻; sound component 匽
- Japanese
- 偃 as a kanji
Common words with 偃
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 偃旗息鼓 | yǎn qí xī gǔ | lit. lay down the flag and still the drums (idiom); fig. to cease; to give in |
| 偃息 | yǎn xī | (literary) to take a rest; (literary) to cease |
偃 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 4 · Art of War 1 · Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 8
- Analects 6.12
- Analects 12.19
- Analects 17.4
- Art of War 11.28
- Mencius 3A.2
- Zhuangzi Transcendental Bliss
- Zhuangzi The Identity of Contraries
- Zhuangzi Perfect Happiness
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.