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 Yen is composed of 日 jih sun as raidical and 安 an peace as phonetic. It means a bright sky, late, but is here the personal name of a famous statesman. [Eitel wrongly reads it "Ngan."]

Fang see.

Ch'i see.

Sui see. [Liu Yen was a famous scholar and statesman who died A.D. 780. He attracted the notice of the Emperor Ming Huang of the T'ang dynasty, and is said to have been actually advanced as below.]

Chü is composed of 與 yü and 丰 fêng elegant. It is now usually written as above, and is classed under radical 臼 chiu a mortar.

Shên is composed of 示 shih divine manifestation as radical, with 申 shên to extend, to state, as phonetic. It has been adopted by certain denominations of Protestant missionaries in China an equivalent for "God," in opposition to the term 上帝 Shang Ti of other Protestants, and to 天主 T'ien Chu Heaven's Ruler  of the Roman Catholics.

T'ung is composed of what is apparently 立 li to stand as radical, but is really a corruption of an obsolete word meaning guilt with a corruption of 重 chung heavy (not 里 li a village) phonetic. It originally meant a male slave.