Traditional (Taiwan):

yán ㄧㄢˊ

    • "speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149)

Other words read yán

How 讠 is written

    部首 radical
    笔画 strokes
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    结构 structure
    独体字

    as a 部首

    is a 部首 (bùshǒu), a radical. A Chinese dictionary files every character under one of them, and this one files 159 under . Look a character up by the radical

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