晏 — Chinese character
晏
yàn
peaceful, tranquil, quiet; clear; late in the day
- Pinyin
- yàn
- Radical
- 72 ⽇ (Sun)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 日 安
- Formation
- ideographic — A woman safe in a house 安 at sunset 日
- Japanese
- 晏 as a kanji
Common words with 晏
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 晏驾 (晏駕) | yàn jià | to die (exclusively of the Emperor) |
| 海晏河清 | hǎi yàn hé qīng | (lit.) the Yellow River is clear and the seas are calm (idiom); (fig.) the world is at peace |
| 河清海晏 | hé qīng hǎi yàn | see 海晏河清 (hǎi yàn hé qīng) |
晏 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 2 · Mencius 6 · Zhuangzi 2
- Analects 5.16
- Analects 13.14
- Mencius 1B.4
- Mencius 2A.1
- Zhuangzi Mountain Trees
- Zhuangzi Knowledge travels North
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.