yǎ, yā
dumb
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 亞 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ʔˤraʔ | 'aeX | yǎ | mute |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.9404% of movies
2603rd most common character in movies
2368th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+555E |
Shuowen | “啞,笑也。从口,亞聲。” |
Sources
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