yàn

Radical: 彡 pictophonetic

Components & Etymology

彦 decomposes into the following components:

Semantic component: ; phonetic component: .

Words containing 彦

Common multi-character words and phrases that include 彦.

巴彦
bā yàn
Bayan county in Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨[Ha1 er3 bin1], Heilongjiang
巴彦县
bā yàn xiàn
Bayan county in Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨[Ha1 er3 bin1], Heilongjiang
李彦宏
lǐ yàn hóng
Robin Li (1968-), founder and CEO of Baidu 百度, a PRC Internet company
萨彦岭
sà yàn lǐng
韩彦直
hán yàn zhí
Han Yanzhi (1131-?), Song dynasty botanist, author of classification of orange trees 橘錄|橘录[ju2 lu4]
巴彦浩特
bā yàn hào tè
Bayanhot, capital of Alxa League 阿拉善盟[A1 la1 shan4 Meng2], Inner Mongolia
巴彦淖尔
bā yàn nào ěr
see 巴彥淖爾市|巴彦淖尔市[Ba1 yan4 nao4 er3 Shi4]
野田佳彦
yě tián jiā yàn
Noda Yoshihiko (1957-), prime minister of Japan 2011-2012
高村正彦
gāo cūn zhèng yàn
KOMURA Masahiko (1942-), Japanese politician, foreign minister from 1998, minister of defense from 2007
巴彦浩特镇
bā yàn hào tè zhèn
巴彦淖尔市
bā yàn nào ěr shì

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