衍 yǎn

1. yǎn verb to overflow; to spill over
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '衍'; Guoyu '衍' v 1; Unihan '衍')
2. yǎn verb to spread out
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '衍'; Guoyu '衍' v 2; Unihan '衍')
3. yǎn adjective surplus
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '衍'; Guoyu '衍' adj)

Contained in

• 衍圣公(衍聖公) hereditary title bestowed on Confucius' descendants
• 蕃衍 to multiply; to reproduce
• 推衍 to deduce; to infer; an implication
• 衍变(衍變) to develop; to evolve
• 衍化 to evolve (of ideas, designs, constructions etc); to develop and change
• 大衍历(大衍曆) Dayan calendar; Daien; Taien calendar
• 衍射角 angle of diffraction
• 箧衍(篋衍) bamboo case
• 金融衍生工具 financial derivative
• 衍射格子 diffraction grating
• 沃衍 rich and fertile (soil)
• 敷衍塞责(敷衍塞責) to skimp on the job; to work half-heartedly; not to take the job seriously
• 衍生物 a derivative (complex product derived from simpler source material)
• 衍伸 to give rise (to); to spawn; to spread (to)
• 胄裔繁衍 Descendants are great in numbers.
• 信贷衍生产品(信貸衍生產品) credit derivative
• 衍射 diffraction
• 邹衍(鄒衍) Zou Yan
• 衍生产品(衍生產品) derivative product; derivative (in finance)
• 敷衍 to elaborate; to expound; to act in a perfunctory way
• 繁衍 to multiply; to reproduce
• 衍生 to give rise to; to derive
• 金融衍生产品(金融衍生產品) financial derivative
• 衍生工具 derivative
• 敷衍了事 to do halfheartedly; to execute a task poorly
• 蔓衍 to spread; to extend
• 铺衍(鋪衍) to spread out widely; to disseminate
• 衍声复词(衍聲複詞) compound word whose meaning is unrelated to the component hanzi

Also contained in

衍圣公府 、 望衍 、 夏衍 、 罗摩衍那 、 鞠和衍那国 、 梵衍那国 、 赤鄂衍那 、 梵衍那 、 邬闍衍那 、 帆衍 、 司马衍

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• 卷98 島夷蕭道成 島夷蕭衍 Volume 98: Xiao Daocheng of the Daoyi People, Xiaoyan of the Daoyi Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 181
• 卷106中 地形志二中 Volume 106b Treatise 2: Terrain 2 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 114
• 卷8 世宗紀 Volum 8 Annals: Shizong (Emperor Xuanwu) Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 95
• 卷二十二　魏一 Chapter 22: Wei I Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 63
• 卷四十三 列傳第十三 山濤 王戎 郭舒 樂廣 Volume 43 Biographies 13: Shan Tao; Wang Rong; Guo Shu; Yue Guang Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 57
• 卷12 孝静紀 Volume 12 Annals: (Emperor) Xiaojing Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 55
• 卷六十三 前蜀世家第三: 王建 Volume 63: Hereditary House of Former Shu New History of the Five Dynasties 新五代史 — count: 48
• 卷71 裴叔業 夏侯道遷 李元護 席法友 王世弼 江悦之 淳于誕 李苗 Volume 71: Pei Shuye, Xiahou Daoqian, Li Yuanhu, Xi Fayou, Wang Shibi, Jiang Yuezhi, Chun Yudan, Li Miao Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 46
• 卷三十四 志第十四: 曆三 Volume 34 Treatises 14: Calendar 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 46
• 卷9 肅宗紀 Volume 9 Annals: Suzong (Emperor Xiaoming) Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 39

Collocations

• 垣衍 (垣衍) 魏王使客將軍新垣衍閒入邯鄲 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《魯仲連鄒陽列傳》 Biographies of Lu Zhonglian and Zou Yang — count: 15
• 公孙衍 (公孫衍) 公孫衍 — Mencius 孟子, 滕文公下 Teng Wen Gong II — count: 9
• 衍曰 (衍曰) 胡衍曰 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《樗里子甘茂列傳》 Biographies of Shu Lizi and Gan Mao — count: 9
• 驺衍 (騶衍) 騶衍以陰陽主運顯於諸侯 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《封禪書》 Religious sacrificial ceremonies — count: 8
• 中衍 (中衍) 中衍人面鳥喙 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷六 復恩 Chapter 6: Repaying Kindness — count: 6
• 胡衍 (胡衍) 請胡衍 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《樗里子甘茂列傳》 Biographies of Shu Lizi and Gan Mao — count: 5
• 坟衍 (墳衍) 墳衍 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 地官司徒 第二 2. Office of Earth and Minster of Education and Social Welfare — count: 5
• 衍氏 (衍氏) 楊端和攻衍氏 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《秦始皇本紀》 Annals of Qin Shi Huang — count: 4
• 公衍 (公衍) 公賜公衍羔裘 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 4
• 杜衍 (杜衍) 封王翳為杜衍侯 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《項羽本紀》 Annals of Xiang Yu — count: 3