嚴 Simplified: 严 On the HSK 4 vocabulary list, at CEFR level B2. yán ㄧㄢˊ tight (closely sealed) stern strict rigorous severe father Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT