阉 — Chinese character
阉
yān
eunuch; to castrate
- Pinyin
- yān
- Radical
- 169 ⾨ (Gate)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 门 奄
- Formation
- pictophonetic — gate; meaning component 门; sound component 奄
- Traditional
- 閹
Common words with 阉
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阉割 (閹割) | yān gē | to castrate; fig. to emasculate |
| 阉人 (閹人) | yān rén | a castrate |
| 阉寺 (閹寺) | yān sì | (literary) court eunuch |
| 阉然 (閹然) | yān rán | covertly; secretly |
| 阉竖 (閹豎) | yān shù | eunuch (contemptuous appellation) |
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.