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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
yā | ya1
English translation
crow
variant of
>[yā]
crow; Corvus species (various)

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Number of strokes

9

Traditional form

Contains the radical

diǎo

Part of speech

Other proper nouns / 其他专名 Qítā zhuān míng

Learning hint

bird

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

牙鸟

Semantic compound

diǎo

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. diǎo represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

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de 签字 qiān zì shì 令人 lìng rén 看不 dǒng de 涂鸦 tú yā .

His signature was an incomprehensible scrawl.

这时候, zhǐ 狐狸 hú li 看见 kànjiàn le 乌鸦 wū yā , chán Zhí 流口水, 非常 fēicháng 想得到 piān ròu .

Attime, a fox saw the crow with the, so a plan to get the meat.

zhè wèi 农夫 nóng fū le liǎng zhǐ 乌鸦 wū yā , guà zài 篱笆 lí ba shǎng .

The farmer shot two crows and strung them on the fence.

这些 zhè xiē yān juān 出自 chū zì dài 鸦片 yā piàn wèi de 香烟 xiāng yān tóu ,形成 xíngchéng 各种 gè zhǒng 光怪陆离 guāng guài lù lí de zhuàng 花纹 huā wén ér 袅袅 niǎo niǎo 上升 shàng shēng .

The wreaths of smoke curled up in such fanciful whorls from his opiumtainted cigarette.

新老建筑 jiànzhù shǎng dōu yǒu 密密麻麻 mì mi má má de 涂鸦 tú yā

Buildings old and new are thickly covered with graffiti.

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
乌鸦 wū yā crow烏鴉
涂鸦 tú yā graffiti塗鴉
鸦片 yā piàn opium (loanword)鴉片
crow
鸦片战争 Yā piàn Zhàn zhēng the Opium Wars of 1840-1842 and 1860-1861鴉片戰爭
鸦雀无声 yāquèwúshēng absolute silence鴉雀無聲
天下乌鸦一般黑 tiān xià wū yā yī bān hēi all crows are black (idiom)天下烏鴉一般黑
渡鸦 dù yā (bird species of China) common raven (Corvus corax)渡鴉
寒鸦 hán yā (bird species of China) Eurasian jackdaw (Coloeus monedula)寒鴉
乌鸦座 Wū yā zuò Corvus (constellation)烏鴉座

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Decomposition

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