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堐

yá

Character

What 堐 means

1. (used in place names)
2. Taiwan pr. ái

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
• 厓old form of 崖 (cliff) and 涯 (bank)
• 琊used in place names, notably 琅琊山; Taiwan pr. yé
• 玡variant of 琊

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