Hanja Analyzer
沿

沿 — yeon

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
물따라갈/따를 연
Romanization
yeon
English
follow a course, go along
Mandarin
yán
Japanese on'yomi
エン
Japanese kun'yomi
そ.う -ぞ.い
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 6
Newspaper frequency
#1,121 of 2,500
Strokes
8
Radical
水 (85, 5 residual)
Unicode
U+6CBF

Parts that make up 沿

  • 氵 물 수variant of 水 흐르는 물줄기물·액체와 관련된 것, 씻고 적시고 흐르는 일
  • 㕣 갈라져 흐르는 모양‘연’ 계열의 소리

How 沿 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 沿 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 水, 㕣.

Korean example words with 沿

  • 연혁沿革 Korean gloss: 변천하여 온 과정
  • 연해沿海 Korean gloss: 바닷가에 인접한 지역
  • 연강沿江 Korean gloss: 강가를 따라서 벌여 있는 땅
  • 연도沿道 Korean gloss: 큰 도로 좌우에 연하여 있는 곳
  • 연로沿路 Korean gloss: 큰 도로 좌우에 연하여 있는 곳
  • 연안沿岸 Korean gloss: 육지와 면한 바다ㆍ강ㆍ호수 따위의 물가
  • 연변沿邊 Korean gloss: 국경, 강, 철도, 도로 따위를 끼고 따라가는 언저리 일대
  • 연습하다沿襲 Korean gloss: 전례를 따라서 하다
  • 연해안沿海岸 Korean gloss: 바다와 육지가 맞닿은 부분
  • 연해지沿海地 Korean gloss: 바닷가에 인접하여 있는 땅
  • 연혁사沿革史 Korean gloss: 변천하여 온 과정을 기록한 역사
  • 연안국沿岸國 Korean gloss: 강ㆍ바다ㆍ호수와 맞닿아 있는 나라

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 沿

  • 沿ってそって along; by; parallel to
  • 沿岸えんがん coast; shore; coastal waters
  • 沿いぞい along (a river, coast, railway, etc.); on (e.g. a street)
  • 沿道えんどう roadside; wayside; route
  • 沿線えんせん places alongside a railway line, bus route, major thoroughfare, etc.
  • 川沿いかわぞい along the river; riverside
  • 沿海えんかい sea along the coast; coastal waters; inshore waters
  • 沿海州えんかいしゅう Primorskaya Oblast (Russia)
  • 沿うそう to run along; to run beside; to stick to (a line)
  • 沿革えんかく history; development
  • 沿路えんろ route
  • 沿層えんそう edgewise (e.g. load, compression)

Other hanja read “연”

Other hanja with radical 水

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