沿 (yán): meaning and stroke order
沿 (yán) means along, to follow (a line, tradition etc), to carry on.
沿
- Simplified
- 沿
- Traditional
- 沿 (same form)
- Pinyin
- yán
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Stroke order of 沿
沿
- yán along; to follow (a line, tradition etc)
- 8 strokes
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Meaning of 沿
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yán
- along
- to follow (a line, tradition etc)
- to carry on
- to trim (a border with braid, tape etc)
- border
- edge
Radical and structure
- 沿
- Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 8 strokes · 氵 on the left, 㕣 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).