閹 — Chinese character
閹
yān
eunuch; to castrate
- Pinyin
- yān
- Radical
- 169 ⾨ (Gate)
- Strokes
- 16
- Components
- 門 奄
- Formation
- pictophonetic — gate; meaning component 門; sound component 奄
- Simplified
- 阉
- Japanese
- 閹 as a kanji
閹 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1
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.