yàn
堰 (yàn) is a Chinese word meaning “weir”.
Meanings
- 1weir
Related words
兵来将敌，水来土堰counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action围堰a cofferdam堰塞湖barrier lake; landslide dam塘堰irrigation pond or dam十堰市Shiyan, prefecture-level city in Hubei Province 湖北省[Hu2 bei3 Sheng3]堰蜓座Chamaeleon (constellation)姜堰区Jiangyan, a district of Taizhou City 泰州市[Tai4 zhou1 Shi4], Jiangsu都江堰Dujiangyan in Sichuan, a famous water engineering project and World Heritage Site都江堰市Dujiangyan, a county-level city in Chengdu City 成都市[Cheng2 du1 Shi4], Sichuan十堰see 十堰市[Shi2 yan4 Shi4]姜堰see 姜堰區|姜堰区[Jiang1 yan4 Qu1]