衍

overflowing

9 strokes.

Readings

• エン (on reading): 敷衍 (ふえん) expatiation; 衍字 (えんじ) superfluous character
• あまり (kun reading)
• しく (kun reading)
• はびこる (kun reading)

Components

• 行
• 氵
• 彳 radical step, left-side form of 行
• ⺡ radical water, left-side form of 水
• 行 radical go; conduct

Kanji containing 衍

• 愆 mistake

Words using 衍

• 敷衍 (ふえん) expatiation
• 衍字 (えんじ) superfluous character
• 衍義 (えんぎ) elaboration
• 衍文 (えんぶん) (inadvertent) redundancy in a text

Jinuma: Japanese Dictionary · Word lists