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氩

yà

Character Traditional 氬

What 氩 means

1. argon (chemistry)

Words starting with 氩

• 氩弧焊yà hú hànargon arc welding; TIG welding

Characters built on 亚

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

• 娅yà(literary) term of address between husbands of sisters…
• 哑yǎmute; dumb; incapable of speech; (of a voice) hoarse; husky…
• 桠yāforking branch
• 垭yā(dialect) strip of land between hills; used in place names; also pr. yà

Characters that look like 氩

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

• 氟fúfluorine (chemistry)
• 氢qīnghydrogen (chemistry)
• 氨ānammonia
• 氦hàihelium (chemistry)
• 氡dōngradon (chemistry)
• 氪kèkrypton (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read yà, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 亚second; next to; inferior
• 讶astounded
• 娅(literary) term of address between husbands of sisters…
• 压used in 压根儿; used in 压马路; used in 压板
• 轧to crush; to knock sb down with a vehicle
• 砑to calender
• 揠to eradicate; to pull up
• 迓to receive (as a guest)
• 挜attach; brandish; hold
• 襾cover; radical no 146
• 铔ammonium (old)
• 齾dented; chipped; gap-toothed