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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

Examples

HSK 6
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.
HSK 7-9
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.

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