Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337-370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409-436) / surname Yan
swallow (family Hirundinidae) / old variant of 宴[yan4]

= + + 廿 + : Maud Younger (y) put a swallow (燕) on a grill (灬) in the anthill's bathroom (an4), but before she did that she oriented the grill towards east using a compass rose (北). She also put a mandarin (口) in the swallow's mouth. Later she'll put the swallow in a flower pot (廿) when it is done.
variant of 燕[yan4]

= + + 廿 + : Maud Younger (y) put a swallow (燕) on a grill (灬) in the anthill's bathroom (an4), but before she did that she oriented the grill towards east using a compass rose (北). She also put a mandarin (口) in the swallow's mouth. Later she'll put the swallow in a flower pot (廿) when it is done.

燕 character breakdown

north / (classical) to be defeated

= + : A compass rose. In the Eiffel Tower, Beelzebub tries to build a compass. As a baseplate he uses a piece of wood, on which he sticks the north pike of a compass rose. On the south pike he balances a ladle, which is supposed to adjust itself to earth's magnetic field.
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
twenty (20), in a limited number of set expressions / also written using banker's character 念

廿 = + : This character looks like a flower pot.

廿 = + : Nefertiti needs to vent off steam. In anthill's bathroom she finds a flower pot with twenty flutes inside. With a single swing with her double axe, she splits all twenty flutes. Afterwards, she feels much better.
"fire" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 86), occurring in 熙, 然, 熊 etc

I will represent this "fire" component by a grill.

Characters with 燕 as component

variant of 宴[yan4]
to swallow

= + : Maud Younger (y) and René Descartes (因) are preparing to swallow (咽) a whole mandarin each (口) in the anthill's bathroom (an4).
variant of 胭[yan1]
lovely
variant of 宴[yan4]
variant of 燕[yan4], swallow

Words with 燕

baby swallow
lit. the goose comes, the swallow goes (idiom); fig. always on the move
banquet held for high-ranking imperial or feudal officials
Former Yan of the Sixteen Kingdoms (337-370)
the shrike and the swallow fly in different directions (idiom) / (usually of a couple) to part from each other
Northern Yan of the Sixteen Kingdoms (409-436)
Southern Yan of the Sixteen Kingdoms (398-410)
(bird species of China) greater crested tern (Thalasseus bergii)
Apus (constellation)
Stefanie Sun (1978-), Singaporean singer-songwriter

Sentences with 燕

燕 currently does not appear in any sentence.