亞

See also: 亚 and 亜

Translingual

Etymology

Pictogram (象形): a overhead view of a house's interior with four corners. Originally meaning "house".

Han character

亞 (radical 7 二+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 一中中一 (MLLM), four-corner 1010₇)

1. Asia
2. second (ordinal)
3. used as a prefix to names

References

• KangXi: page 87, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 274
• Dae Jaweon: page 183, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 23, character 2
• Unihan data for U+4E9E

Descendants

• 啞, 婭

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Chinese

		-
trad.		亞
simp.		亚

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yā, yà (ya¹, ya⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄚ, ㄧㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): aa³, ngaa³
• Min Nan (POJ): a

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yā
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄚ
    • Wade-Giles: ya¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ia
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯a̠⁵⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yà
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄚˋ
    • Wade-Giles: ya⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yah
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯a̠⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: aa³, ngaa³
    • Yale: a, nga
    • Cantonese Pinyin: aa³, ngaa³
    • IPA ^(key): /ɑː³³/, /ŋɑː³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: a
    • Tâi-lô: a
    • IPA (Taipei): /a⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /a³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (亞, reconstructed)
Character (亞), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 影 (34) Final: 麻 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 衣嫁切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʔɣaH/	/ʔaH/	/ʔaH/	/ʔɯaH/	/ʔaɨH/	/aH/	/ʔaH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (亞, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
亞								yà								‹ ʔæH ›								/*ʔˤrak-s/								secondary
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
亞					14212					亞					暮					0					亞					/*qraːɡs/

Compounds

• 亞洲

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

shinjitai	亜
simplified	亚
traditional	亞

Kanji

亞

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 亜)

1. rank
2. follow
3. sub- prefix

Readings

• Goon: え (e)
• Kan’on: あ (a), あつ (atsu), おう (ō)
• Kun: つぐ (tsugu)

References

JIS: 5033 Kuten: 4819 Shift JIS: 98b1 EUC-JP: D0B3 Frequency: not ranked Nelson: 45

New Nelson: 82 Halpern: 3563 Halpern Learners: not listed Heisig: not listed Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 0a7.14

1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Usage notes

• 旧字体 (kyūjitai) old form character
• Also used phonetically for あ (a)

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Korean

Hanja

亞 (a) (hangeul 아, revised a, McCune-Reischauer a, Yale a)

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Vietnamese

Han character

亞 (á, a)

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References

• Nom Foundation