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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
yá | ya2
English translation
precipice
cliff
Taiwan pr. [yái]
cliff, precipice; precipitous

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Number of strokes

11

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Shān

Part of speech

Noun morpheme / 名语素 Míng yǔsù

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A mountain  Shān  precipice  also provides the pronunciation

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

山厓

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这个 zhè ge 男孩 nán hái 抓住 zhuā zhù 那棵 ǎi shù ,直到 zhí dào yǒu rén xià 悬崖 xuán yá jiù .

The boy held on to the bush until someone climbed down the cliff to rescue him.

其中 qízhōng 包括 bāokuò 加利福尼亚 Jiā lì fú ní yà de 泼拉崖维尔森林 sēnlín 遗传 yíchuán 研究所 yán jiū suǒ 创造 chuàngzào de 帆布 fān bù 提取 tí qǔ .

These include the canvas extractors developed by the Institute of Forest Genetics at Placerville California.

Cóng 这儿 zhè r dào 悬崖 xuán yá zhī de 距离 jùlí 60.

It's a fall of 60 metres to the foot of the cliff.

kān 人们 rén men Cóng 悬崖 xuán yá shǎng tiào Hǎi , zhēn 叫人胆战心惊 dǎn zhàn xīn jīng .

It's thrilling to see people diving into the sea from a cliff.

爬山 páshān zhě diē xià le 悬崖 xuán yá .

The climber fell down a precipice.

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
悬崖 xuán yá precipice懸崖
cliff
山崖 shān yá cliff山崖 shān yá
悬崖峭壁 xuányáqiàobì sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces (idiom)懸崖峭壁
悬崖勒马 xuán yá lè mǎ fig. to act in the nick of time懸崖勒馬
崖壁 yá bì escarpment崖壁 yá bì
断崖 duàn yá crag斷崖
悬崖绝壁 xuán yá jué bì sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces (idiom)懸崖絕壁
陡崖 dǒu yá steep cliff陡崖 dǒu yá
崖岸 yá àn cliff崖岸 yá àn
崖谷 yá gǔ valley崖谷 yá gǔ
崖刻 yá kè rock carving崖刻 yá kè
崖壑 yá hè valley崖壑 yá hè

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