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娅

婭
yà
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 used in transliterating female names
  2. 2 term of address between brothers-in-law (literary)

Examples

她叫娅茹，和我同班。
Tā jiào Yà rú, hé wǒ tóngbān.
Her name is Yaru, and she is in my class.
娅字常用于女孩的名字。
Yà zì cháng yòng yú nǚhái de míngzi.
The character 娅 is often used in girls' names.

Tips

usage
Today 娅 is almost only a name character for women (and to transliterate foreign names). Its classical sense, a term husbands of sisters used for each other, is no longer in everyday use.

Components

radical
女 nǚ
woman; female
The woman radical 女 marks 娅 as relating to women, which matches both its in-law kinship origin and its modern role as a female name character.
phonetic
亚 yà
second; Asia
亚 supplies the sound yà directly and contributes no meaning here, working purely as the phonetic element.

Stroke Order

娅 yà