swallow-tailed coat; tails

swallow

Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day 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]

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)

baby swallow

banquet held for high-ranking imperial or feudal officials

Former Yan of the Sixteen Kingdoms (337-370)

Northern Yan of the Sixteen Kingdoms (409-436)

Southern Yan of the Sixteen Kingdoms (398-410)

Later Yan of the Sixteen Kingdoms (384-409)

(bird species of China) barn swallow (Hirundo rustica)

(bird species of China) Eurasian crag martin (Ptyonoprogne rupestris)

(bird species of China) Pacific swallow (Hirundo tahitica)

Yanjing, an old name for Beijing; capital of Yan at different periods

Yan mountain range across north Hebei

(dialect) insurance (loanword)

Hirundinidae (the family of swallows and martins)

edible bird's nest

Yan and Zhao, two of the Warring States in Hebei and Shanxi; beautiful women; women dancers and singers

(bird species of China) Eurasian hobby (Falco subbuteo)

(bird species of China) brambling (Fringilla montifringilla); (fig.) small fry

agar-agar

to leave peace for the future generations

(literary) airplane

swallow chick

swift; Apodidae (the swift family)

(bird species of China) sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus)

Apus (constellation)

Stefanie Sun (1978-), Singaporean singer-songwriter

(bird species of China) little forktail (Enicurus scouleri)

(bird species of China) sand martin (Riparia riparia)

(bird species of China) striated swallow (Cecropis striolata)

Zeng Jinyan (1983-), Chinese blogger and human rights activist, wife of dissident activist Hu Jia 胡佳[Hu2 Jia1]

(bird species of China) Asian palm swift (Cypsiurus balasiensis)

(bird species of China) ashy woodswallow (Artamus fuscus)

(bird species of China) small pratincole (Glareola lactea)

swallowtail butterfly (family Papilionidae)

agar-agar powder

rolled oats

oatmeal; porridge

(bird species of China) wire-tailed swallow (Hirundo smithii)

Jenny Hu (1945-), Hong Kong actress

Aerodramus, genus of birds that use echolocation, a subset of the Collocaliini tribe (swiflets), two of whose species – Aerodramus fuciphagus and Aerodramus maximus – build nests harvested to make bird's nest soup

(bird species of China) red-rumped swallow (Cecropis daurica)

(bird species of China) collared pratincole (Glareola pratincola)

lit. Ying writes a letter and Yan reads it; fig. to misinterpret the original meaning; to pile up errors; refers to the letter from capital 郢[Ying3] of 楚[Chu3] in which the inadvertent words "hold up the candle" are mistaken by the minister of 燕[Yan1] as "promote the wise"

(bird species of China) crested treeswift (Hemiprocne coronata)

the shrike and the swallow fly in different directions (idiom); (usually of a couple) to part from each other