衍
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to spread out; to develop; to overflow; to amplify; superfluous
9 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,051 U+884D
How 衍 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Water 氵 going in all directions 行
How to remember it
develop · Heisig RSH #2000
boulevard + 水 water
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 衍 as their sound component
These characters all use 衍 (yǎn) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 衍 sound component | yǎn | to overflow; to spread out |
| 愆 | qiān | error, fault, mistake, transgression |
Words containing 衍
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 金融衍生产品 | jīn róng yǎn shēng chǎn pǐn | financial derivative |
| 衍射格子 | yǎn shè gé zi | diffraction grating (physics) |
| 衍生产品 | yǎn shēng chǎn pǐn | derivative product; derivative (in finance) |
| 衍声复词 | yǎn shēng fù cí | compound word, such as 玫瑰[mei2 gui1] or 咖啡[ka1 fei1], whose meaning is unrelated to the in… |
| 衍生物 | yǎn shēng wù | derivative; offshoot |
| 衍生工具 | yǎn shēng gōng jù | derivative (finance) |
| 信贷衍生产品 | xìn dài yǎn shēng chǎn pǐn | credit derivative (in finance) |
| 衍圣公 | Yǎn shèng gōng | hereditary title bestowed on Confucius' descendants |
| 衍圣公府 | Yǎn shèng gōng fǔ | the official residence of Confucius' descendants at Qufu 曲阜, Shandong |
| 衍射角 | yǎn shè jiǎo | angle of diffraction (physics) |
| 罗摩衍那 | Luó mó yǎn nà | the Ramayana (Indian epic) |
| 衍生剧 | yǎn shēng jù | spin-off series (TV) |
| 衍生 | yǎn shēng | to give rise to; to derive; derivative; derivation |
| 衍化 | yǎn huà | to evolve (of ideas, designs, constructions etc); to develop and change |
| 衍变 | yǎn biàn | to develop; to evolve |
| 衍射 | yǎn shè | (physics) to diffract |
| 敷衍了事 | fū yǎn liǎo shì | (idiom) to do things half-heartedly; to merely go through the motions |
| 推衍 | tuī yǎn | to deduce; to infer; an implication; same as 推演 |
| 夏衍 | Xià Yǎn | Xia Yan (1900-1995), Chinese writer, playwright, socialist critic and movie pioneer |
| 敷衍塞责 | fū yǎn sè zé | (idiom) to skimp on the job; to work half-heartedly; not to take the job seriously |