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厓

yá

Character

What 厓 means

1. old form of 崖 (cliff) and 涯 (bank)

Characters built on 圭

These share the phonetic component 圭 (guī), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 哇wāWow!; sound of a child's crying; sound of vomiting
• 娃wábaby; doll
• 蛙wāfrog
• 洼wādepression; low-lying area; low-lying; sunken

Sounds the same

Read yá, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 牙tooth; ivory
• 崖precipice; cliff; Taiwan pr. yái
• 芽bud; sprout
• 涯border; horizon; shore
• 伢(dialect) child
• 衙office; yamen 衙门
• 睚(literary) corner of the eye; canthus
• 蚜aphis
• 枒the coconut tree; rim
• 堐(used in place names); Taiwan pr. ái
• 琊used in place names, notably 琅琊山; Taiwan pr. yé
• 玡variant of 琊