沿 — Chinese character
沿
yán
to follow a course, to go along
- Pinyin
- yán
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 氵 几 口
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵
- Japanese
- 沿 as a kanji
Common words with 沿
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 沿海 | yán hǎi | coastal |
| 沿岸 | yán àn | coastal area; littoral or riparian |
| 沿着 (沿著) | yán zhe | to go along; to follow |
| 沿用 | yán yòng | to continue to use (old methods); to apply as before |
| 沿线 (沿線) | yán xiàn | along the line (e.g. railway); the region near the line |
| 沿革 | yán gé | evolution of sth over time; course of development |
| 前沿 | qián yán | (military) forward position; frontier; cutting-edge; forefront |
| 沿途 | yán tú | along the sides of the road; by the wayside |
| 沿袭 (沿襲) | yán xí | to carry on as before; to follow (an old custom etc) |
| 沿江 | yán jiāng | along the river; the region around the river |
| 沿海地区 (沿海地區) | yán hǎi dì qū | coastland; coastal areas |
| 沿路 | yán lù | along the way; on the way; area beside a road |
English words written with 沿
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.