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耶

yē

Character

What 耶 means

1. (phonetic ye)

Other readings

耶 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• yéinterrogative particle (classical)
• yefinal particle indicating enthusiasm etc

Example sentences

• 耶！
  Yay!
• 耶稣基督！
  Yēsū Jīdū!
  Jesus Christ!
• 耶稣恨你。
  Jesus hates you.
• 耶稣爱你。
  Jesus loves you.
• 耶稣很好。
  Jesus is good.
• 耶稣哭泣了。
  Jesus wept.

Words starting with 耶

• 耶稣Yē sūJesus
• 耶路撒冷Yē lù sā lěngJerusalem
• 耶和华Yē hé huáJehovah (biblical name for God, Hebrew: YHWH); compare Yahweh 雅威
• 耶鲁Yē lǔYale
• 耶鲁大学Yē lǔ Dà xuéYale University
• 耶律Yē lǜtwo-character surname Yelü
• 耶户Yē hùJehu (842-815 BC), Israelite king, prominent character in 2 Kings 9:10
• 耶西Yē xīJesse (son of Obed)
• 耶利哥Yē lì gēJericho (Biblical city)
• 耶利米Yē lì mǐJeremy or Jeremiah (name)
• 耶利米书Yē lì mǐ shūBook of Jeremiah
• 耶和华见证人Yē hé huá Jiàn zhèng rénJehovah's Witnesses
• 耶律大石Yē lǜ Dà shíYollig Taxin or Yelü Dashi (1087-1143), Chinese-educated Khitan leader, founder of…
• 耶洗别Yē xǐ biéJezebel, wife of Ahab and mother of Ahaziah, major character in 1 Kings 16:31, 19:1, 21…
• 耶哥尼雅Yē gē ní yǎJechoniah or Jeconiah (son of Josiah)
• 耶弗他Yē fú tāJephthah (Hebrew: Yiftach) son of Gilead, Judges 11-foll.
• 耶稣光Yē sū guāngcrepuscular rays; sunbeams
• 耶稣教Yē sū jiàoProtestantism
• 耶稣会Yē sū huìThe Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
• 耶稣基督Yē sū Jī dūJesus Christ
• 耶稣会士Yē sū huì shìa Jesuit; member of Society of Jesus
• 耶稣升天节Yē sū Shēng tiān jiéAscension Day (Christian festival forty days after Easter)
• 耶稣受难节Yē sū Shòu nàn jiéGood Friday
• 耶稣降临节Yē sū Jiàng lín jiéAdvent (Christian period of 4 weeks before Christmas)

Words containing 耶

• 比耶bǐ yēto make a V sign (esp. when posing for photos)
• 克耶族Kè yē zúKaya or Karenni ethnic group of Myanmar
• 勒威耶Lè wēi yēUrbain Le Verrier (1811-1877), French mathematician and astronomer who predicted the…
• 法耶德Fǎ yē dé(name) Fayed; Mohamed Al-Fayed (1929–2023), Egyptian business magnate
• 西耶那Xī yē nàFiat Siena
• 卡波耶拉kǎ bō yē lācapoeira (loanword)
• 巴耶利巴Bā yē lì bāPaya Lebar, a place in Singapore
• 里维耶拉lǐ wéi yē lāriviera (loanword) (Tw)
• 奥维耶多Ào wéi yē duōOviedo (Asturian: Uviéu), capital of Asturias in northwest Spain
• 阿布沙耶夫Ā bù Shā yē fūAbu Sayyaf, militant Islamist separatist group also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya
• 萨摩耶sà mó yéSamoyed (dog)
• 史高比耶Shǐ gāo bǐ yēSkopje, capital of North Macedonia (Tw)
• 克耶邦Kè yē bāngKaya state of Myanmar
• 塞拉耶佛Sài lā yē fó(Taiwan) Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 桑耶Sāng yēSamye town and monastery in central Tibet
• 梅西耶Méi xī yēCharles Messier (1730-1817), French astronomer who catalogued nebulas and galaxies
• 梅西耶星表Méi xī yē xīng biǎoMessier catalog of nebulae and clusters (1784)
• 雷扎耶湖Léi zhá yē HúLake Urmia, northwest Iran, a major salt lake; formerly called lake Rezaiyeh
• 纳扎尔巴耶夫Nà zhā ěr bā yē fūNursultan Nazarbayev (1940-), president of Kazakhstan 1990-2019
• 鲍耶Bào yēJános Bolyai (1802–1860), Hungarian mathematician, one of the founders of non-Euclidean…
• 萨摩耶犬sà mó yē quǎnSamoyed (dog)
• 昭披耶河Zhāo pī yé HéChao Phraya River, the main river of Thailand
• 昭披耶帕康Zhāo pī yé Pà kāngChao Phraya Phra Klang (Royal Finance and External Affairs Minister), the honorary title…
• 毗耶娑Pí yē suōVyasa, Indian sage and scribe, supposed author of epic 摩诃婆罗多

Characters that look like 耶

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

• 邻línneighbor; adjacent; close to
• 郎láng(arch.) minister; official; noun prefix denoting function or status
• 乖guāi(of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd
• 郡jùncanton; county; region
• 邳Pīsurname Pi; Han dynasty county in present-day Jiangsu; also pr. Péi
• 郅zhìextremely; very

Sounds the same

Read yē, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 噎to choke (on); to choke up; to suffocate
• 椰(bound form) coconut palm; Taiwan pr. yé
• 掖to tuck (into a pocket); to hide; to conceal
• 吔onomat. for surprise, amazement and sigh
• 倻used to represent phonetic "ya" in Korean names
• 蠮wasp of the family Sphecidae