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衙

yá

Character

What 衙 means

1. office
2. yamen 衙门

Other readings

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

• Yásurname Ya

Words starting with 衙

• 衙门yá menyamen, government office in dynastic China
• 衙内yá nèichild of an official; palace bodyguard
• 衙役yá yìbailiff of feudal yamen
• 衙署yá shǔgovernment office in feudal China; yamen

Words containing 衙

• 总理衙门zǒng lǐ yá menthe Qing dynasty equivalent of the Foreign Office
• 铁打的衙门，流水的官tiě dǎ de yá men , liú shuǐ de guānlit. the yamen is strong as iron, the officials flow like water (idiom)…

Characters that look like 衙

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

• 御yù(bound form) imperial; royal; (literary) to drive (a carriage); (literary) to manage…
• 靴xuēboots
• 榭xièpavilion
• 颓tuíto crumble; to collapse; to decline
• 腑fǔinternal organs
• 弼bìto assist

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
• 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