閻王 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 阎王 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. yánwang ㄧㄢˊ ˙ㄨㄤ Yama, the King of Hell Buddhism cruel and tyrannical person fig. Character by character 閻(yán)the gate of a lane 王(wang) A Chinese word or character, or English Search 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