燕
Meaning
- swallow (family Hirundinidae)
- old variant of 宴[yan4]
- variant of 燕[yan4]
Yān yan1
- Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning
- north Hebei
- the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337–370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384–409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398–410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409–436)
- surname Yan
Example sentences
- Meanwhile, Jiang Qin distracted Jiang Feng's older brother Yan Daxia.