顏 — Chinese character
顏
yán
face, facial appearance
- Pinyin
- yán
- Radical
- 181 ⾴ (Leaf)
- Strokes
- 18
- Components
- 彥 頁
- Formation
- pictophonetic — head; meaning component 頁; sound component 彥
- Simplified
- 颜
- Japanese
- 顏 as a kanji
顏 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 21 · Mencius 11 · Zhuangzi 43
- Analects 5.25
- Analects 6.2
- Analects 7.10
- Analects 8.4
- Analects 9.10
- Analects 9.20
- Analects 10.4
- Analects 11.2
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.