丫
fork; branch; bifurcation; girl
3 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,649 U+4E2B
How 丫 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A forked line 丨
components: 丷 丨
Characters built with 丫 as their sound component
These characters all use 丫 (yā) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 丫 sound component | yā | forked; bifurcation |
| 吖 | ā | used in transliterations |
Words containing 丫
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 丫头片子 | yā tou piàn zi | (coll.) silly girl; little girl |
| 黄毛丫头 | huáng máo yā tou | silly little girl |
| 丫巴儿 | yā bā r | fork (of a tree, road, argument etc); bifurcation; fork junction |
| 脚丫子 | jiǎo yā zi | (coll.) foot |
| 颠儿丫子 | diān r yā zi | see 顛兒|颠儿[dian1 r5] |
| 撒丫子 | sā yā zi | (dialect) to scamper off; to take to one's heels; to make oneself scarce |
| 丫子 | yā zi | see 腳丫子|脚丫子[jiao3 ya1 zi5] |
| 丫头 | yā tou | girl; servant girl; (used deprecatingly, but sometimes also as a term of endearment) |
| 丫角 | yā jiǎo | traditional hairstyle for children, with two pointy braids, giving it a horn-like appearan… |
| 脚丫 | jiǎo yā | (coll.) foot |
| 丫环 | yā huan | servant girl; maid |
| 枝丫 | zhī yā | variant of 枝椏|枝桠[zhi1 ya1] |
| 丫挺 | yā tǐng | (Beijing dialect) bastard; damned |
| 丫杈 | yā chà | fork (of a tree); tool made of forked wood |
| 丫髻 | yā jì | bun (of hair); topknot |
| 丫鬟 | yā huan | servant girl; maid |