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燕 is the single character for the swallow (bird).
If you are a zoologist, this can refer to birds of the family Hirundinidae. Sometimes used to refer to Hirundo rustica (the barn swallow).
燕 is also a surname in China that is romanized as Yan. In fact, there were also several different Yan kingdoms in the ancient history of China (which is the origin of the surname).
Used in modern times for divorced couples that come back together
破鏡重圓 is about a husband and wife who were separated and reunited.
About 1500 years ago in China, there lived a beautiful princess named Le Chang. She and her husband Xu De Yan loved each other very much. But when the army of the Sui Dynasty was about to attack their kingdom, disposed of all of their worldly possessions and prepared to flee into exile.
They knew that in the chaos, they might lose track of each other, so the one possession they kept was a bronze mirror which is a symbol of unity for a husband and wife. They broke the mirror into two pieces, and each of them kept half of the mirror. They decided that if separated, they would try to meet at the fair during the 15th day of the first lunar month (which is the lantern festival). Unfortunately, the occupation was brutal, and the princess was forced to become the mistress of the new commissioner of the territory, Yang Su.
At the Lantern Festival the next year, the husband came to the fair to search for his wife. He carried with him his half of the mirror. As he walked through the fair, he saw the other half of the mirror for sale at a junk market by a servant of the commissioner. The husband recognized his wife's half of the mirror immediately, and tears rolled down his face as he was told by the servant about the bitter and loveless life that the princess had endured.
As his tears dripped onto the mirror, the husband scratched a poem into his wife's half of the mirror:
You left me with the severed mirror,
The mirror has returned, but absent are you,
As I gaze in the mirror, I seek your face,
I see the moon, but as for you, I see not a trace.
The servant brought the inscribed half of the mirror back to the princess. For many days, the princess could not stop crying when she found that her husband was alive and still loved her.
Commissioner Yang Su, becoming aware of this saga, realized that he could never obtain the princess's love. He sent for the husband and allowed them to reunite.
This proverb, 破鏡重圓, is now used to describe a couple who has been torn apart for some reason (usually divorce) but have come back together (or remarried).
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Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your in yan search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
岩 see styles |
yán yan2 yen yan やん |
More info & calligraphy: Iwa(1) rock; boulder; (2) crag; cliff; (3) anchor; (personal name) Yan |
黃龍 黄龙 see styles |
huáng lóng huang2 long2 huang lung Ōryū |
More info & calligraphy: Yellow DragonHuanglong |
鄢 see styles |
yān yan1 yen |
surname Yan; name of a district in Henan |
閆 闫 see styles |
yán yan2 yen |
surname Yan |
顔 颜 see styles |
yán yan2 yen yan やん |
Japanese variant of 顏|颜[yan2] (out-dated or obsolete kana usage) (1) face; visage; (2) look; expression; countenance; (1) (archaism) countenance; visage; (2) face; honor (honour); dignity; (1) face; visage; (2) look; expression; countenance; (3) honor; honour; face; (4) influence; notoriety; (personal name) Yan face |
やん see styles |
yan やん |
(suffix noun) (1) (See ちゃん) suffix for familiar person; (particle) (2) (ksb:) (at sentence end) indicates emphasis; (3) (archaism) (abbreviation) (See やんま) prostitute; (personal name) Jan; Janis; Yan |
六国 see styles |
rikkoku; rokkoku; rikukoku りっこく; ろっこく; りくこく |
(1) (hist) (See 戦国時代・2) the Six Kingdoms (of China's Warring States period: Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Wei and Zhao); (2) (See 香道・こうどう,真南蛮,真那伽,佐曾羅,寸門多羅,伽羅・2) the six tree-derived incense varieties used in kōdō ceremonies |
前燕 see styles |
qián yān qian2 yan1 ch`ien yen chien yen |
Former Yan of the Sixteen Kingdoms (337-370) |
北燕 see styles |
běi yān bei3 yan1 pei yen |
Northern Yan of the Sixteen Kingdoms (409-436) |
南燕 see styles |
nán yān nan2 yan1 nan yen |
Southern Yan of the Sixteen Kingdoms (398-410) |
厗奚 see styles |
tí xī ti2 xi1 t`i hsi ti hsi |
old place name (in Yan of Warring states, in modern Beijing city) |
吳起 吴起 see styles |
wú qǐ wu2 qi3 wu ch`i wu chi |
Wuqi county in Yan'an 延安[Yan2 an1], Shaanxi |
呂岩 吕岩 see styles |
lǚ yán lu:3 yan2 lü yen |
Lü Yan (lived c. 874), Tang dynasty poet |
嚴復 严复 see styles |
yán fù yan2 fu4 yen fu |
Yan Fu (1853-1921), influential Chinese writer and translator of Western books, esp. on social sciences |
夏衍 see styles |
xià yǎn xia4 yan3 hsia yen shiazeien / shiazeen しあぜいえん |
Xia Yan (1900-1995), Chinese writer, playwright, socialist critic and movie pioneer (personal name) Shiazeien |
夜暗 see styles |
yaan / yan やあん |
dead of night; shades of night; black of night |
子長 子长 see styles |
zǐ cháng zi3 chang2 tzu ch`ang tzu chang |
Zichang county in Yan'an 延安[Yan2 an1], Shaanxi |
安塞 see styles |
ān sāi an1 sai1 an sai |
Ansai county in Yan'an 延安[Yan2 an1], Shaanxi |
宜川 see styles |
yí chuān yi2 chuan1 i ch`uan i chuan gikawa ぎかわ |
Yichuan county in Yan'an 延安[Yan2 an1], Shaanxi (surname) Gikawa |
富縣 富县 see styles |
fù xiàn fu4 xian4 fu hsien |
Fu county in Yan'an 延安[Yan2 an1], Shaanxi |
延安 see styles |
yán ān yan2 an1 yen an nobuyasu のぶやす |
Yan'an, prefecture-level city in Shaanxi, wartime stronghold of the communists from the mid-1930s until 1949 (surname) Nobuyasu |
延川 see styles |
yán chuān yan2 chuan1 yen ch`uan yen chuan nobekawa のべかわ |
Yanchuan county in Yan'an 延安[Yan2 an1], Shaanxi (surname) Nobekawa |
後燕 后燕 see styles |
hòu yān hou4 yan1 hou yen kouen / koen こうえん |
Later Yan of the Sixteen Kingdoms (384-409) (hist) Later Yan (dynastic Chinese state) |
志丹 see styles |
zhì dān zhi4 dan1 chih tan |
Zhidan county in Yan'an 延安[Yan2 an1], Shaanxi |
愷徹 恺彻 see styles |
kǎi chè kai3 che4 k`ai ch`e kai che |
variant of 愷撒|恺撒, Caesar (emperor) used by Yan Fu 嚴復|严复 |
晏嬰 晏婴 see styles |
yàn yīng yan4 ying1 yen ying anei / ane あんえい |
Yan Ying (-c 500 BC), famous statesman from Qi of the Warring States, also known as Yanzi 晏子[Yan4 zi3] , hero of book 晏子春秋[Yan4 zi3 Chun1 qiu1] (personal name) An'ei |
洛川 see styles |
luò chuān luo4 chuan1 lo ch`uan lo chuan |
Luochuan county in Yan'an 延安[Yan2 an1], Shaanxi |
漁陽 渔阳 see styles |
yú yáng yu2 yang2 yü yang |
old place name (in Yan of Warring states, in modern Beijing city) |
燕京 see styles |
yān jīng yan1 jing1 yen ching |
Yanjing, an old name for Beijing; capital of Yan at different periods |
燕國 燕国 see styles |
yān guó yan1 guo2 yen kuo |
Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern Hebei and Liaoning; north Hebei; the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337-370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409-436) |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Swallow | 燕 | yasushi | yàn / yan4 / yan | yen |
Jan | 雅恩 | yǎ ēn / ya3 en1 / ya en / yaen | ||
Broken Mirror Rejoined | 破鏡重圓 破镜重圆 | pò jìng chóng yuán po4 jing4 chong2 yuan2 po jing chong yuan pojingchongyuan | p`o ching ch`ung yüan pochingchungyüan po ching chung yüan |
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In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. |
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