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瓦

wǎ

HSK 6 Character

What 瓦 means

1. roof tile
2. abbr. for {瓦特|wǎ tè}

Example sentences

• 他从日内瓦来。
  Tā cóng Rìnèiwǎ lái.
  He comes from Geneva.
• 我闻到瓦斯味。
  I smell gas.
• 布罗尼斯瓦18岁。
  Bùluónísīwǎ shí bā suì.
  Bronisław is eighteen years old.
• 普丁杀死了纳瓦尼。
  Putin killed Navalny.
• 你煮饭用瓦斯还是电？
  Nǐ zhǔfàn yòng wǎsī háishi diàn?
  Do you cook by gas or electricity?
• 我喜欢布拉提斯拉瓦。
  I like Bratislava.

Words starting with 瓦

• 瓦解wǎ jiěto collapse; to disintegrate; to crumble; to disrupt; to break up
• 瓦斯wǎ sīgas (loanword)
• 瓦房wǎ fángtile-roofed house
• 瓦西里Wǎ xī lǐ(name) Vasily; Vasiliy
• 瓦片wǎ piàntile
• 瓦砾wǎ lìrubble; debris
• 瓦特wǎ tè(loanword) watt
• 瓦利Wǎ lìVáli (son of Odin)
• 瓦尔特Wǎ ěr tèWalter
• 瓦器wǎ qìpottery
• 瓦城Wǎ chénganother name for Mandalay 曼德勒, Myanmar's second city
• 瓦工wǎ gōngtiling; bricklaying; plastering
• 瓦当wǎ dāngeaves-tile
• 瓦勒他Wǎ lè tāValletta, capital of Malta (Tw)
• 瓦尔德Wǎ ěr déVardø (city in Finnmark, Norway)
• 瓦尔纳Wǎ ěr nàVarna (city in Bulgaria)
• 瓦里斯Wǎ lǐ sī(name) Wallis; John Wallis (1616–1703), English mathematician
• 瓦努阿图Wǎ nǔ ā túVanuatu, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean
• 瓦房店市Wǎ fáng diàn ShìWafangdian, a county-level city in Dalian City 大连市
• 瓦尔基里wǎ ěr jī lǐvalkyrie
• 瓦尔达克Wǎ ěr dá kèWardak (Afghan province)
• 瓦哈比教派wǎ hā bǐ jiào pàiWahhabism (a conservative sect of Islam)
• 瓦萨比wǎ sà bǐ(loanword) wasabi
• 瓦莱塔Wǎ lái tǎValletta, capital of Malta

Words containing 瓦

• 砖瓦zhuān wǎtiles and bricks
• 日内瓦Rì nèi wǎGeneva, Switzerland
• 千瓦qiān wǎkilowatt
• 琉璃瓦liú li wǎglazed roof tile
• 哈瓦那Hā wǎ nàHavana, capital of Cuba
• 土崩瓦解tǔ bēng wǎ jiěto collapse; to fall apart
• 分瓦fēn wǎdeciwatt
• 图瓦Tú wǎTuva, a republic in south-central Siberia, Russia
• 卡瓦斯kǎ wǎ sī(loanword) kvass
• 安瓦尔Ān wǎ ěr(name) Anwar; Anwar Ibrahim (1947–), Malaysian politician, prime minister 2022–
• 斯瓦特Sī wǎ tèSwat province in Pakistani Northwest Frontier
• 格瓦斯gé wǎ sī(loanword) kvass
• 法特瓦fǎ tè wǎ(loanword) fatwa
• 特瓦族Tè wǎ zúTwa or Batwa, an ethnic group in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of…
• 阿拉瓦Ā lā wǎAraba or Álava
• 巴克拉瓦bā kè lā wǎ(loanword) baklava
• 巴卡拉瓦bā kǎ lā wǎ(loanword) baklava
• 斯瓦希里Sī wǎ xī lǐSwahili
• 科尔多瓦Kē ěr duō wǎCórdoba, Spain
• 里瓦尔多Lǐ wǎ ěr duōRivaldo
• 阿瓦里德Ā wǎ lǐ déPrince Alwaleed Bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia
• 德拉克罗瓦Dé lā kè luó wǎDelacroix (painter)
• 斯瓦希里语Sī wǎ xī lǐ yǔSwahili (language); Kiswahili
• 纳瓦特尔语Nà wǎ tè ěr yǔNahuatl (language)

Characters that look like 瓦

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

• 见jiànto see; to meet; to appear (to be sth)
• 反fǎncontrary; in reverse; inside out or upside down
• 巨jùvery large; huge; tremendous; gigantic; (colloquial) very; extremely
• 乏fáshort of; tired
• 孔kǒnghole; classifier for cave dwellings
• 氏shì(bound form) family name; surname (as in 王氏; (bound form) maiden name; née…

Sounds the same

Read wǎ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 佤Wa ethnic group
• 邷to grab; see 邷么儿
• 搲to crawl; to climb; to scoop up