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Trad	Simp	Mandarin	Definition	Days old	Ver
燕	燕	[[Yan1]]	/Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day 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)/surname Yan/	403	2
鷰	燕	[yan4]	/variant of 燕[yan4]/	4893	1
燕	燕	[yan4]	/swallow (family Hirundinidae)/old variant of 宴[yan4]/	4842	1
觾	觾	[yan4]	/variant of 燕[yan4], swallow/	1966	1
郢書燕說	郢书燕说	[Ying3 shu1 Yan1 shuo1]	/lit. Ying writes a letter and Yan reads it/fig. to misinterpret the original meaning/to pile up errors/refers to the letter from capital 郢[Ying3] of 楚[Chu3] in which the inadvertent words "hold up the candle" are mistaken by the minister of 燕[Yan1] as "promote the wise"/	5394	1
戰國七雄	战国七雄	[zhan4 guo2 qi1 xiong2]	/Seven Powerful States of the Warring States, namely: 齊\|齐[Qi2], 楚[Chu3], 燕[Yan1], 韓\|韩[Han2], 趙\|赵[Zhao4], 魏[Wei4] and 秦[Qin2]/	5806	1

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