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蚜

yá

Character

What 蚜 means

1. aphis

Words starting with 蚜

• 蚜虫yá chónggreenfly (Aphis spp.); aphid

Characters built on 牙

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

• 雅yǎelegant
• 呀ya(particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt)
• 讶yàastounded
• 鸦yācrow
• 芽yábud; sprout
• 玡yávariant of 琊
• 砑yàto calender
• 伢yá(dialect) child

Characters that look like 蚜

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

• 蚂māused in 蚂螂
• 铆mǎoto fasten with a rivet; to rivet; to hammer in a rivet…
• 蛎lìoyster
• 蚌bàngmussel; clam
• 砑yàto calender
• 姘pīnto be a mistress or lover

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
• 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