noun

Meanings

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

Examples

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

Stroke Order