surname Yan

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a tightly sealed bottling jar. Just inside the anthill's kitchen, Maud Younger is working on her top secret project. On a table she's got a sealed bottling jar of Mapo Doufu and a still packaged and sealed chocolate factory. She plans to modify the chocolate factory to produce Mapo Doufu, to sell the food world wide.
tight (closely sealed) / stern / strict / rigorous / severe / father

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a tightly sealed bottling jar. Just inside the anthill's kitchen, Maud Younger is working on her top secret project. On a table she's got a sealed bottling jar of Mapo Doufu and a still packaged and sealed chocolate factory. She plans to modify the chocolate factory to produce Mapo Doufu, to sell the food world wide.

严 character breakdown

Asia / Asian / Taiwan pr. [Ya3]

= + : What is Asia famous for? Many people will say for its food. Let's say that 亚 is for 麻婆豆腐. Maud Younger is eating a plate of Mapo Doufu in the ashram's bathroom, when a bullfrog steals the plate by snatching it away with his tongue. His punishment follows at once by Maud Younger beating him over the head with a flute.
second / next to / inferior / sub- / Taiwan pr. [ya3]

= + : What is Asia famous for? Many people will say for its food. Let's say that 亚 is for 麻婆豆腐. Maud Younger is eating a plate of Mapo Doufu in the ashram's bathroom, when a bullfrog steals the plate by snatching it away with his tongue. His punishment follows at once by Maud Younger beating him over the head with a flute.
"cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 27), occurring in 原, 历, 压 etc
factory / yard / depot / workhouse / works / (industrial) plant

Mnemonic symbol: a chocolate factory. Charlie Chaplin (ch) is overjoyed to see that in the anglepod's living room (ang3), a small chocolate factory (厂) is for sale. He buys it, shaves his mustache, grows his hair a bit and renames himself to Willy Wonka to live in the chocolate factory.

Characters with 严 as component

majestic / dignified
strong (of tea)

Words with 严

strict / tight (organization, surveillance etc)
grim / severe / rigorous
up to the eyeballs / full to overflowing / jampacked
to be strict with oneself (idiom) / to demand a lot of oneself
torture / interrogation by torture
to strike a severe blow / to crack down / to take strong measures
to criticize severely / to slate
Itsukushima island in Hiroshima prefecture, Japan, with a famous shrine
Itsukujima shrine in Hiroshima prefecture, Japan
Yan Fu (1853-1921), influential Chinese writer and translator of Western books, esp. on social sciences
strict and compassionate / strict as a father and tender as a mother
to be strict / to enforce vigorously (procedures, quality control etc)
to strictly control (abbr. for 嚴格控制|严格控制[yan2 ge2 kong4 zhi4])
to scold / to censure
to have a loose tongue
prudent in speech

Sentences with 严

bǎ
ta̅
hǒng
shàng
tia̅n
lái
 
 
yán
jia̅
guǎn
shù