衍
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to spread out; to develop; to overflow; to amplify; superfluous
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 行 +3
- Structure
- Overlaid 叠加
- Traditional
- 衍
- Common rank
- #2,051
- Unicode
- U+884D
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
develop · Heisig RSH #2000
boulevard + 水 water
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 衍
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 金融衍生产品 | financial derivative | |
| 衍射格子 | diffraction grating (physics) | |
| 衍生产品 | derivative product; derivative (in finance) | |
| 衍声复词 | compound word, such as 玫瑰[mei2 gui1] or 咖啡[ka1 fei1], whose meaning is unrelated to the in… | |
| 衍生物 | derivative; offshoot | |
| 衍生工具 | derivative (finance) | |
| 信贷衍生产品 | credit derivative (in finance) | |
| 衍圣公 | hereditary title bestowed on Confucius' descendants | |
| 衍圣公府 | the official residence of Confucius' descendants at Qufu 曲阜, Shandong | |
| 衍射角 | angle of diffraction (physics) | |
| 罗摩衍那 | the Ramayana (Indian epic) | |
| 衍生剧 | spin-off series (TV) | |
| 衍生 | to give rise to; to derive; derivative; derivation | |
| 衍化 | to evolve (of ideas, designs, constructions etc); to develop and change | |
| 衍变 | to develop; to evolve | |
| 衍射 | (physics) to diffract | |
| 敷衍了事 | (idiom) to do things half-heartedly; to merely go through the motions | |
| 推衍 | to deduce; to infer; an implication; same as 推演 | |
| 夏衍 | Xia Yan (1900-1995), Chinese writer, playwright, socialist critic and movie pioneer | |
| 敷衍塞责 | (idiom) to skimp on the job; to work half-heartedly; not to take the job seriously |
Sound family
These characters use 衍 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 衍 sound part | to overflow; to spread out | |
| 愆 | error, fault, mistake, transgression |