yà
express surprise
Phonosemantic compound. 讠 represents the meaning and 牙 represents the sound. Simplified form of 訝.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Traditional script
ModernSimplified 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 | 6 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8BB6 |
Sources
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