yà
express surprise
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 牙 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 19.6220% of movies
1631st most common character in movies
2162nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8A1D |
Shuowen | “訝，相迎也。从言，牙聲。《周禮》曰：‘諸侯有卿訝發。’訝，或从辵。” |
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