佤

wǎ
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 the Wa (Va) people, an ethnic group of Yunnan and Myanmar

Examples

HSK 7-9
Wǎzú zhǔyào jùjū zài Yúnnán xīnán de biānjìng shānqū.
The Wa people mainly live in the border mountains of southwestern Yunnan.

Tips

usage
Almost never stands alone; it appears in the fixed compound 佤族 (the Wa ethnic group). The character was created specifically as a transliteration for this people's name.

Components

radical
亻 rén
person
The person radical 亻 marks this as a word for a group of people, used here to name an ethnic group.
phonetic
瓦 wǎ
tile
The right side 瓦 supplies the sound wǎ exactly, chosen purely to transcribe the ethnonym with no tile meaning.

Stroke Order

佤 wǎ