Character: 燕
Modern (Beijing) reading: yàn
Preclassic Old Chinese: ʔēns
Classic Old Chinese: ʔēnh
Western Han Chinese: ʔjānh
Eastern Han Chinese: ʔiānh
Early Postclassic Chinese: ʔiḕn
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʔiḕn
Late Postclassic Chinese: ʔiḕn
Middle Chinese: ʔìen
English meaning : swallow
Russian meaning[s]: 1) ласточка, касатка (Chelidon rustica); стриж; городская ласточка (Hirundo urbica); 2) покой; мир; отдыхать; успокаивать(ся); 3) банкет, пиршество, пир; праздновать; чествовать; 4) очернить, оскорбить; 5) частный, неофициальный; частным образом; обычный; [yān] 1) Янь (название древнего княжества); 2) книжн. провинция Хэбэй; 3) Янь (фамилия)
Comments: Also used for a homonymous word: OC *ʔēnʔ-s, MC ʔìen, Mand. yàn 'be at ease, rest, feast'. There also exist readings: *ʔēnʔ, MC ʔíen, Mand. yǎn (Sch.: 'either something like "nice", or a reduplicative syllable for 婉 q.v.', used in the combination 燕婉 *ʔēnʔ-ʔʷanʔ); *ʔēn, MC ʔien (FQ 烏前), Mand. yān - name of a province. The regular Sino-Vietnamese reflex is yến; the colloquial én is used only in the compound chim én 'swallow'. Viet. also has yên 'calm, pieceful, quiet', obviously borrowed from MC ʔìen - although the tone is not clear.
Radical: 86
Four-angle index: 8605
Karlgren code: 0243 a-b
Vietnamese reading: én
Jianchuan Bai: -ŋɛ1-
Dali Bai: -ja2-
Shijing occurrences: 28.1, 28.2, 28.3, 43.1, 43.2, 43.3
