燕 — kanji meaning “swallow (bird)”
燕
swallow (bird)
- Meanings
- swallow (bird)
- On'yomi
- エン (en)
- Kun'yomi
- つばめ、つばくら、つばくろ
- Strokes
- 16
- School grade
- 9
- Newspaper frequency
- #2147 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 86
- Chinese reading
- yàn, yān — Chinese character page
Words with 燕
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 飛燕 | ひえん hien | swallow in flight |
| 燕尾服 | えんびふく enbifuku | tailcoat |
| 燕返し | つばめがえし tsubamegaeshi | quickly reversed cut (sword technique) |
| 海燕 | うみつばめ umitsubame | storm petrel (any bird of family Hydrobatidae) |
| 燕雀 | えんじゃく enjaku | small bird (like a swallow or sparrow) |
| 燕青拳 | えんせいけん enseiken | Yangqingquan; Yangqing Fist |
| 燕巣 | えんそう ensou | swift's nest (used to make bird's nest soup); edible bird's nest |
| 虎燕拳 | こえんけん koenken | Tiger Swallow Fist |
| 燕千鳥 | つばめちどり tsubamechidori | Oriental pratincole (Glareola maldivarum); eastern collared pratincole; large Indian pratincole |
| 雨燕 | あまつばめ amatsubame | swift (any bird of family Apodidae) |
| 腰赤燕 | こしあかつばめ koshiakatsubame | red-rumped swallow (Hirundo daurica) |
| 岩燕 | いわつばめ iwatsubame | Asian house martin (Delichon dasypus) |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.