奄 yǎn
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yǎn
verb
to embrace
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: yan3.mp3 -
yǎn
adverb
suddenly
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
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yān
verb
to castrate
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: variant of 阉 -
yān
verb
to delay
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: variant of 淹
Contained in
- 奄奄 weak of breath; about to stop breathing
- 奄列 omelet
- 奄奄垂绝(奄奄垂絕) only faintly breathing; about to die
- 奄奄一息 at one's last breath; about to die
- 气息奄奄(氣息奄奄) gasping; about to breathe his last breath
- 奄去 to suddenly go
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷二十五 志第十五 天文三 Volume 25 Treatises 15: Astronomy 3 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 43
- 卷十三 志第三 天文下 Volume 13 Treatises 3: Astronomy Part Three Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 35
- 卷十二 志第二 天文中 Volume 12 Treatises 2: Astronomy Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 21
- 卷二百四十 列傳第一百二十八 葉向高 劉一燝 韓爌 朱國祚 何宗彥 孫如游 Volume 240 Biographies 128: Ye Xianggao, Liu Yijing, Han Kuang, Zhu Guozuo, He Zongyan, Sun Ruyou History of Ming 明史 — count: 15
- 卷二十四 志第十四 天文二 Volume 24 Treatises 14: Astronomy 2 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 13
- 卷三百二十九 列傳第二百十七 西域一 Volume 329 Biographies 217: Western Regions 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 12
- 天官冢宰 第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister Rites of Zhou 周禮 — count: 10
- 殷紀 Records of the Yin Bamboo Annals 竹書紀年 — count: 9
- 卷三十二 Scroll 32 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 8
- 卷七十七 列傳第六十七 恩倖 Volume 77 Biographies 67: Noble Favorites History of the Southern Dynasties 南史 — count: 7
Collocations
- 月奄 (月奄) 月奄犯五緯 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷十二 志第二 天文中 Volume 12 Treatises 2: Astronomy Part Two — count: 42
- 奄蔡 (奄蔡) 奄蔡在康居西北可二千里 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《大宛列傳》 Treatise on the Dayuan — count: 13
- 奄息 (奄息) 子車奄息 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧秦‧黃鳥 Lessons from the states - Odes of Qin - Huang Niao — count: 7
- 奄二 (奄二) 奄二人 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰 第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 6
- 奄斗 (奄鬥) 月奄鬥第四星 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷十三 志第三 天文下 Volume 13 Treatises 3: Astronomy Part Three — count: 5
- 奄心 (奄心) 月奄心大星 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷十三 志第三 天文下 Volume 13 Treatises 3: Astronomy Part Three — count: 5
- 奄岁星 (奄歲星) 月奄歲星 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷十二 志第二 天文中 Volume 12 Treatises 2: Astronomy Part Two — count: 5
- 奄太白 (奄太白) 月俱奄太白 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷十二 志第二 天文中 Volume 12 Treatises 2: Astronomy Part Two — count: 5
- 奄一 (奄一) 奄一人 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰 第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 4
- 奄荧惑 (奄熒惑) 月奄熒惑 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷十二 志第二 天文中 Volume 12 Treatises 2: Astronomy Part Two — count: 4