亚

亞
Yà
noun #1,441

Meanings

  1. 1 Asia (short for 亚洲)
  2. 2 second; sub-; runner-up

Examples

HSK 4
Yàzhōu hěn dà.
Asia is very big.
HSK 6
Tā déle yàjūn.
He won second place.

Tips

usage
亚军 = runner-up, 亚洲 = Asia.

Components

ideograph
一 yī
one; horizontal stroke
Top horizontal stroke serving as the cap of the cross-shaped frame. Not the numeral 'one' here - a positional anchor closing the upper boundary of the symmetric figure below. Indexed under Kangxi #1 一 (yī, one) by tradition via this very stroke, used as the indexing convention rather than a content-bearing radical.
ideograph
业 yè
industry; trade
Symmetric cross-frame functioning as an abstract enclosure-pattern; the 业-like strokes are reused purely graphically here with no meaning link to 'industry'. Carries the 'second, sub-, secondary' meaning (one rank below the centre). Historically pictured a tomb floor-plan or sacred enclosure with four cornered chambers.

Stroke Order

亚 Yà