yā, yà
press, push down
Simplified form of 壓. Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 厌 represents the sound.
Components
厌 Sound Simplified component
yàn
dislike
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Xin dynasty (9-23 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 48.8707% of movies
862nd most common character in movies
756th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+538B |
Sources
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