檐 yán
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yán
noun
eaves
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: This simplified form is also an archaic variant of the modern traditional character 簷 (Unihan '檐') -
yán
noun
border; brim; rim
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '檐'; Unihan '檐')
Contained in
- 帽檐 brim (of a hat)
- 房檐 eaves
- 飞檐走壁(飛檐走壁) to leap onto roofs and vault over walls (usually associated with martial arts)
- 屋檐 eaves; rafts ; eaves; roof (i.e. home)
- 挑檐(挑簷) eaves
- 封檐板 barge board; weather board; eaves board (construction)
- 密檐塔(密簷塔) multi-eaved pagoda
- 檐兽(簷獸) imperial roof decoration; roof charms; roof figures
Also contained in
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷五十二 Scroll 52 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 6
- 卷十一 Scroll 11 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 4
- 卷上：一之源、二之具、三之造 First Scroll: 1. Origin, 2. Tools, 3. Making The Classic of Tea 茶經 — count: 4
- 《卷七‧木部》 Scroll 7, Mù Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 3
- 卷六十五 志第四十一 輿服一 Volume 65 Treatises 41: Carriages and Clothing 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 3
- 吳語 Discourses of Wu Guoyu 國語 — count: 3
- 卷二十五 Scroll 25 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 卷三 Scroll 3 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 卷三十八 Scroll 38 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 卷二十 Scroll 20 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
Collocations
- 负檐 (負檐) 幸得免負檐 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《陳杞世家》 Houses of Chen and Qi — count: 13
- 重檐 (重檐) 復廟重檐 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《明堂位》 The Places in the Hall of Distinction — count: 7
- 檐簦 (檐簦) 躡蹻檐簦說趙孝成王 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《平原君虞卿列傳》 Biographies of Lord Pingyuan and Yu Qing — count: 6
- 檐子 (檐子) 乘檐子迎高祖於郊外 — Old History of the Five Dynasties 舊五代史, 卷一百二十五 周書16: 列傳五 趙暉 王守恩 孔知濬 王繼弘 馮暉 高允權 折從阮 王饒 孫方諫 Volume 125 Book of Later Zhou 27: Biographies 5 - Lie Chuanwu, Zhao Hui, Wang Shou'en, Kong Zhijun, Wang Jihong, Feng Hui, Gao Yunquan, Zhe Congruan, Wang Rao, Sun Fangjian — count: 4
- 檐囊 (檐囊) 檐囊行取薪 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷二十七 Scroll 27 — count: 3
- 蹻檐 (蹻檐) 躡蹻檐簦說趙孝成王 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《平原君虞卿列傳》 Biographies of Lord Pingyuan and Yu Qing — count: 3
- 步檐 (步檐) 步檐周流 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷五十七上 司馬相如傳 Volume 57a: Sima Xiangru — count: 3
- 承檐 (承檐) 承檐四隅 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷六 Scroll 6 — count: 3
- 檐帽 (檐帽) 則冠黃牙忽寶貝珠子帶後檐帽 — History of Yuan 元史, 卷七十八 志第二十八: 輿服一 Volume 78 Treatises 31: Carriages and Clothes 1 — count: 2
- 檐石 (檐石) 家不滿檐石者 — Discourses on Salt and Iron 鹽鐵論, 卷四 Scroll 4 — count: 2