surname Yan

= + : Maud Younger (y) is playing Go on a Go board (廴) against the stick-figure (正) in the anthill's kitchen (an2), but Maud Younger is playing remotely via a computer. Maud is losing and she's blaming the lag (延) she's experiencing through her slow connection.
to prolong / to extend / to delay

= + : Maud Younger (y) is playing Go on a Go board (廴) against the stick-figure (正) in the anthill's kitchen (an2), but Maud Younger is playing remotely via a computer. Maud is losing and she's blaming the lag (延) she's experiencing through her slow connection.

延 character breakdown

"long stride" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 54), occurring in 建, 延, 廷 etc

Mnemonic symbol: a "go" game board.
first month of the lunar year
straight / upright / proper / main / principal / to correct / to rectify / exactly / just (at that time) / right (in that place) / (math.) positive

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a stick-figure with straight lines. James II of England (zh) really has to use the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4), but there's a stick-figure (正) blocking the stalls with a barrier (止). The stick-figure measures with a flute (一) whether James is tall enough to go. James stands very straight (正) to make himself as tall as possible.

Characters with 延 as component

birth / birthday / brag / boast / to increase

= + : Don Quixote (d) is celebrating his birthday (诞) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). He has a big display mounted on an advertising column (讠) to talk to Santa Clause (诞) on a video call, but he is experiencing a lot of lag (延).
variant of 涎[xian2]
bamboo mat for sitting
Tanka people
slug
slug / used in 蜿蜒[wan1 yan2]
saliva
boundary
to mix water with clay
length (of a tree or beam) / long
cap tassels

Words with 延

Cheyenne, capital of Wyoming
Yan'an, prefecture-level city in Shaanxi, communist headquarters during the war
to extend / to stretch out / ductable / to scale / scalable
extension (semantics)
Yanping district of Nanping city 南平市[Nan2 ping2 shi4] Fujian / Yanping township in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[Tai2 dong1 Xian4], southeast Taiwan
to extend; to stretch out
see 延伸[yan2 shen1]
exhaustive / distributed (logic: applies to every instance)
Babuyan Archipelago in Luzon Strait north of the Philippines

Sentences with 延

延 currently does not appear in any sentence.