yǎn

  1. yǎn verb to lie; to lay down
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As a variant of 仰卧 (Guoyu '偃' v 1; Kroll 2015 '偃' 1; Unihan '偃')
  2. yǎn verb to decline; to cease; to diminish
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '偃' 1a; Unihan '偃')
  3. yǎn verb to fall down
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 仆倒 (Guoyu '偃' v 2; Kroll 2015 '偃' 1b)
  4. yǎn verb to adapt
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '偃' 1c)
  5. yǎn adjective below
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In a lower phyiscal position (Kroll 2015 '偃' 2)
  6. yǎn verb to rest; to pause; to stop
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 停止 of 平息 (Guoyu '偃' v 4; Kroll 2015 '偃' 3)
  7. yǎn noun Temminck's mole; Japanese mole
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As a variant of 鼴 in 鼴鼠 (Guoyu '偃鼠'; Kroll 2015 '偃' 5; Wikipedia '鼴鼠')
  8. yǎn verb to cover
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 覆盖 (Guoyu '偃' v 3)
  9. yǎn noun a dike; an embankment; a levee
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 堤防 (Guoyu '偃' n 1)
  10. yǎn proper noun Yan
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (Guoyu '偃' n 2)

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偃师主父偃言偃偃师市

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