Rare literary noun for beauty, typically found in classical or poetic contexts. Not used in everyday conversation.
The flowers vied in beauty, blooming proudly in the garden.
beauty and ugliness
Rare kanji for 'beauty'; primarily used in literary or classical contexts. The variant 姸 is also attested but even less common.
Variant form of 妍, extremely rare in modern Japanese.
The Chinese character 妍 is phono-semantic, combining 女 as the semantic element with 幵 as the phonetic element. It entered Japanese with the Sino-Japanese reading けん and the meaning “beauty.”