砚 — Chinese character
砚
yàn
inkstone
- Pinyin
- yàn
- Radical
- 112 ⽯ (Stone)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 石 见
- Formation
- pictophonetic — stone; meaning component 石; sound component 见
- Traditional
- 硯
Common words with 砚
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 砚台 (硯臺) | yàn tái | ink stone; ink slab |
| 砚池 (硯池) | yàn chí | (concave) ink stone or ink slab |
| 笔砚 (筆硯) | bǐ yàn | writing brush and ink stone |
| 砚田 (硯田) | yàn tián | ink stone; writing as a livelihood |
| 砚石 (硯石) | yàn shí | ink stone; ink slab |
| 古砚 (古硯) | gǔ yàn | antique ink slab; measure word: 台 (tái) |
| 砚友 (硯友) | yàn yǒu | classmate; fellow student |
| 同砚 (同硯) | tóng yàn | classmate; fellow student |
| 墨砚 (墨硯) | mò yàn | ink slab; ink stone |
| 柘砚 (柘硯) | zhè yàn | ink slabs from a place in Shandong |
| 涤砚 (滌硯) | dí yàn | to wash an ink-slab; to prepare for study (idiom) |
| 焚砚 (焚硯) | fén yàn | to destroy one's ink-slab (i.e. to write no more because others write so much better) |
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.