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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
yé | ye2
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Number of strokes

8

Traditional form

Contains the radical

ěr

Part of speech

Name of a person / 人名 rén míng Rénmíng

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ear

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

耳阝

Semantic compound

ěr

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. ěr represents the meaning and represents the sound.

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zuì 紧张 jǐnzhāng 刺激 cìjī de 球赛 qiú sài shì 哈佛 Hā fó duì duì 耶鲁 Yē lǔ duì .

The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.

1986 Nián , 耶拿 Dōng cài 重新 chóngxīn 开始 kāishǐ 生产 shēngchǎn 相机 xiàng jī .

While in 1986, Carl Zeiss Jena resumed production of cameras.

直升机 zhí shēng jī 虽然 suīrán 已经 yǐjīng kuà 起来 qǐlai ? liǎng 飞行员 fēi xíng yuán dào dān ya chuāi .

The wreckage has been recovered but the two pilots are still missing.

shuí 扮演 bànyǎn 耶稣 Yē sū 降生 jiàng shēng de 玛利亚 Mǎ lì yà ?

Who played Mary in the nativity play?

犹大 Yóu dà shì 耶稣 Yē sū 十二 shí èr 门徒 mén tú 之一 zhī yī .

Judas was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
(phonetic ye)
耶稣 Yē sū Jesus耶穌
耶路撒冷 Yē lù sā lěng Jerusalem耶路撒冷 Yē lù sā lěng
耶鲁 Yē lǔ Yale耶魯
耶和华 Yē hé huá Jehovah (biblical name for God, Hebrew: YHWH)耶和華
耶鲁大学 Yē lǔ Dà xué Yale University耶魯大學
耶酥 Yē sū Jesus (耶稣 Yē sū is more usual)耶酥 Yē sū
纳扎尔巴耶夫 Nà zhā ěr bā yē fū Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940-), president of Kazakhstan納扎爾巴耶夫
耶稣会 Yē sū huì The Jesuits (Society of Jesus)耶穌會
鲍耶 Bào yē János Bolyai (1802-1860), one of the discoverers of non-Euclidean geometry鮑耶
阿布沙耶夫 Ā bù Shā yē fū Abu Sayyaf, militant Islamist separatist group also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya阿布沙耶夫 Ā bù Shā yē fū
萨摩耶 Sà mó yé Samoyed (dog)薩摩耶
西耶那 Xī yē nà Fiat Siena西耶那 Xī yē nà

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