yan
/jæn/
yan numeral: one.
Numeral (1)
yan
- One.
Numeral (2)
yan
Determiner
yan
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Yan
Yan
- An ancient march, duchy, and kingdom of northeastern China during the Zhou dynasty.
- It is Lady Zhao who concocts a devious plan to unite the populace behind the emperor by arranging a bogus assassination attempt that will justify his invasion of the neighboring kingdom of Yan. The climactic showdown with Jing Ke (Zhang Fengyi), the fearless professional killer she recruits for the...1999 December 17, Stephen Holden, “FILM REVIEW; A Bloodthirsty Unification of China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2011, Movie Review
- The excavations, made this year ahead of development of a new administrative district for Beijing, shed light on life in a county-level city that was alive with activity several hundred years earlier than experts previously thought. Archaeological teams this year found ceramic and porcelain urns...2016 December 8, “Diggers find ancient tombs in Beijing suburb”, in AP News, sourced from BEIJING (AP), archived from the original on 05 Sep 2024
- The realm of this land under later imperial Chinese dynasties.
- A mountain chain in northeastern China.
- Synonyms:
- Yanshan
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Yan
Yan (plural Yans)
- A male given name, equivalent to English John.
- A transliteration of the Belarusian, Russian, or Ukrainian male given name Ян (Jan)
Proper noun (3) capitalized: Yan
Yan
- A surname from Mandarin.
yan meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
yan in Tamil
- யான்
yan in Marathi
- यॅन
yan in Urdu
- یان
yan in Bengali
- ইয়ান
More languagesFewer languages
- yan in Malayalam
- യാൻ
- yan in Kannada
- ಯಾನ್
- yan in Punjabi
- ਯਾਨ
- yan in Odia
- ଯ଼ାନ୍
Synonyms of yan
Forms of yan
| alternative form | Yen |
|---|---|
| plural | Yans |
Origin of yan
Along with ane and yen, a Cumbrian and Northumbrian form of one, from the Old English ān. An example is "yan, twee, tree, fower" for "one, two, three, four".
From Brythonic numerals, with influence from Old English ān or modern Northern English yan or Northern English yen.
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 燕 (Yān).
Words formed from yan
- yance
- yence
- yan-a-bumfit
- yan-a-dick
Phrases with yan
Words that rhyme with yan
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- clan
- ban
- Cheyenne
- Longshan
- Nanshan
- plan
- an
- gan
- Gushan
- han
- Hongshan
- mann
- nan
- stan
- tan
- unman
- Baoshan
- Dongshan
- flan
- Heshan
- Jinshan
- langshan
- marzipan
- panne
- Qishan
- ran
- rattan
- bantustan
- began
- chan
- Fengshan
- Fran
- Guanshan
- Hengshan
- Huangshan
- Huishan
- japan
- Lausanne
- Lianshan
- Lushan
- Marianne
- Pingshan
- scran
- sedan
- shan
- than
- trapan
- trepan
Questions about yan
- What does yan mean?
- Yan means one.
- What is yan in Tamil?
- Yan in Tamil is யான். See Yan meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is yan?
- Yan can be a numeral, a determiner or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce yan?
- Yan is pronounced /jæn/.
Words near yan in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: yan (page history and authors); Yan (page history and authors); yan (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yan (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yan (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yan (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yan (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yan (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yan (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yan (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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