yá
bud
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 牙 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-ɢˤ<r>a | ngae | yá | shoot, sprout |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.7230% of movies
2782nd most common character in movies
2737th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+82BD |
Shuowen | “芽,萌芽也。从艸,牙聲。” |
Sources
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