Yān Zhào

Traditional: 燕趙

燕赵 (Yān Zhào) is a Chinese word meaning “Yan and Zhao, two of the Warring States in Hebei and Shanxi; beautiful women; women dancers and singers”.

Meanings

  1. 1Yan and Zhao, two of the Warring States in Hebei and Shanxi
  2. 2beautiful women
  3. 3women dancers and singers

Characters in 燕赵

燕yàn · swallow (family Hirundinidae)赵zhào · to surpass (old)

Related words

燕尾服swallow-tailed coat燕swallow (family Hirundinidae)燕Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning燕variant of 燕[yan4]赵to surpass (old)赵surname Zhao燕麦oats燕子swallow完璧归赵lit. to return the jade annulus to Zhao (idiom); fig. to return something intact to its rightful owner燕窝edible bird's nest雨燕swift金丝燕Aerodramus, genus of birds that use echolocation, a subset of the Collocaliini tribe (swiflets), two of whose species – Aerodramus fuciphagus and Aerodramus maximus – build nests harvested to make bird's nest soup

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