yá
cliff
A mountain 山 precipice 厓; 厓 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 崖
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
precipice | ||
cliff | ||
cliff | ||
sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces (idiom) | ||
fig. to act in the nick of time |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ŋˤrar | ngea | yá | river bank; limit |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.2997% of movies
2647th most common character in movies
2247th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+5D16 |
Shuowen | “崖，高邊也。从屵，圭聲。” |
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