Hanja Analyzer
艷

艷 — yeom

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
고울[艶] 염
Romanization
yeom
English
beautiful, sexy, voluptuous
Mandarin
yàn
Japanese on'yomi
エン
Japanese kun'yomi
つや なま.めかしい あで.やか つや.めく なま.めく
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
24
Variant forms
艶
Radical
色 (139, 18 residual)
Unicode
U+8277

Parts that make up 艷

  • 豐 풍년 풍
  • 色 빛 색 사람 위에 얹힌 사람빛깔. ‘색’ 계열의 소리

How 艷 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 艷 as a ideographic compound involving 豐, 色.

Japanese words with 艷

  • 艷冶えんや charming; bewitching; coquettish

Other hanja read “염”

冄 冉 剡 厭 塩 懕 扊 染 檶 檿 灎 灧 灩 炎 焔 焰 焱 燄 琰 艶 苒 釅 閻 饜 髥 髯 魘 鹽 黶

Other hanja with radical 色

色 艴 艶

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