瓦
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roof tile; abbr. for 瓦特[wa3 te4]
4 strokes
Dict coverage rank #434 U+74E6
How 瓦 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
An interlocking roof tile
How to remember it
tile · Heisig RSH #2117
ceiling + plow + fishhook + a drop of
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 瓦 as their sound component
These characters all use 瓦 (wǎ) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 瓦 sound component | wǎ | tile; pottery, earthenware |
| 佤 | wǎ | The Va people (an ethnic group in Myanmar and southwest China) |
Words containing 瓦
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 德拉克罗瓦 | Dé lā kè luó wǎ | Delacroix (painter) |
| 巴克拉瓦 | bā kè lā wǎ | (loanword) baklava |
| 里瓦尔多 | Lǐ wǎ ěr duō | Rivaldo |
| 布拉提斯拉瓦 | Bù lā tí sī lā wǎ | (Tw) Bratislava, capital of Slovakia |
| 拉瓦尔 | Lā wǎ ěr | Laval (name) |
| 安瓦尔 | Ān wǎ ěr | (name) Anwar; Anwar Ibrahim (1947–), Malaysian politician, prime minister 2022– |
| 普尔热瓦尔斯基 | Pǔ ěr rè wǎ ěr sī jī | Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski (1839-1888), Russian explorer who made four expeditions to… |
| 斯瓦特 | Sī wǎ tè | Swat province in Pakistani Northwest Frontier |
| 科尔多瓦 | Kē ěr duō wǎ | Córdoba, Spain |
| 斯福尔瓦尔 | Sī fú ěr wǎ ěr | Svolvær (city in Nordland, Norway) |
| 瓦尔特 | Wǎ ěr tè | Walter |
| 阿瓦里德 | Ā wǎ lǐ dé | Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia |
| 纳瓦特尔语 | Nà wǎ tè ěr yǔ | Nahuatl (language) |
| 瓦尔基里 | wǎ ěr jī lǐ | valkyrie |
| 瓦尔达克 | Wǎ ěr dá kè | Wardak (Afghan province) |
| 瓦里斯 | Wǎ lǐ sī | (name) Wallis; John Wallis (1616–1703), English mathematician |
| 瓦尔德 | Wǎ ěr dé | Vardø (city in Finnmark, Norway) |
| 巴卡拉瓦 | bā kǎ lā wǎ | (loanword) baklava |
| 巴特瓦族 | Bā tè wǎ zú | see 特瓦族[Te4 wa3 zu2] |
| 法特瓦 | fǎ tè wǎ | (loanword) fatwa |