衍 — kanji meaning “overflowing”
衍
overflowing
- Meanings
- overflowing
- On'yomi
- エン (en)
- Kun'yomi
- あまり、しく、はびこ.る
- Strokes
- 9
- Classical radical
- 144
- Chinese reading
- yǎn — Chinese character page
Words with 衍
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 敷衍 | ふえん fuen | expatiation; enlargement (e.g. on a point); elaboration |
| 衍義 | えんぎ engi | elaboration; amplification; explication |
| 衍文 | えんぶん enbun | (inadvertent) redundancy in a text |
| 衍字 | えんじ enji | superfluous character; character added by mistake |
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