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崖

yá

HSK 6 Character

What 崖 means

1. precipice
2. cliff
3. Taiwan pr. yái

Example sentences

• 我差点从悬崖上掉下去。
  Wǒ chàdiǎn cóng xuányá shàng diàoxià qù.
  I nearly fell off the cliff.
• 他们一直爬到悬崖顶上。
  Tāmen yīzhí pádào xuányá dǐng shàng.
  They climbed to the top of a cliff.
• 只迈一步，你就会落下悬崖。
  A single step, and you will fall over the cliff.
• 车子若是掉落悬崖他们早就没命了。
  Chēzi ruòshì diàoluò xuányá tāmen zǎojiù méimìng le.
  They would have been killed if the car had gone over the cliff.

Words starting with 崖

• 崖壁yá bìescarpment; precipice; cliff
• 崖刻yá kèrock carving; cliff engraving; words carved into cliff face
• 崖岸yá àncliff; steep slope; fig. arrogant and difficult person
• 崖州Yá Zhōuancient name for Hainan Island 海南岛
• 崖略yá lüè(literary) outline; general idea; rough sketch
• 崖谷yá gǔvalley; ravine
• 崖限yá xiàncliff barring the way; fig. brick wall
• 崖州区Yá zhōu QūYazhou, a district of Sanya City 三亚市
• 崖沙燕yá shā yàn(bird species of China) sand martin (Riparia riparia)
• 崖海鸦yá hǎi yā(bird species of China) common murre (Uria aalge)
• 崖壑yá hèvalley; gulley

Words containing 崖

• 悬崖峭壁xuán yá qiào bì(idiom) sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces
• 悬崖xuán yáprecipice; overhanging cliff
• 山崖shān yácliff
• 悬崖勒马xuán yá lè mǎlit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom)…
• 断崖duàn yásteep cliff; crag; precipice
• 珠崖Zhū yáZhuya, historic name for Hainan Island 海南岛
• 琼崖Qióng yáQiongya, historic name for Hainan Island 海南岛
• 断崖式duàn yá shì(of a fall in price, temperature etc) steep; precipitous
• 茫崖市Máng yá ShìMangnai, a county-level city in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州
• 淡色崖沙燕dàn sè yá shā yàn(bird species of China) pale martin (Riparia diluta)
• 陡崖dǒu yásteep cliff; precipice
• 茫崖Máng yásee 茫崖市
• 悬崖绝壁xuán yá jué bìsee 悬崖峭壁

Characters built on 厓

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

• 涯yáborder; horizon; shore
• 睚yá(literary) corner of the eye; canthus

Characters that look like 崖

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 虚xūemptiness; void; abstract theory or guiding principles
• 晨chénmorning; dawn; daybreak
• 屠túto slaughter (animals for food); to massacre
• 虔qiánto act with reverence; reverent
• 庸yōngordinary; to use
• 雳lìused in 霹雳

Sounds the same

Read yá, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 牙tooth; ivory
• 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)
• 堐(used in place names); Taiwan pr. ái
• 琊used in place names, notably 琅琊山; Taiwan pr. yé
• 玡variant of 琊