亞

See also 亚, and 亜

Translingual

Han character

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

1. Asia
2. second
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

Descendant characters

• 啞, 婭

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Cantonese

Hanzi

亞 (simplified 亚, Yale a3, nga3)

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Japanese

shinjitai	亜
simplified	亚
traditional	亞

Kanji

亞 (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. rank
2. follow
3. sub- prefix

Readings

• Go'on: 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 (hangeul 아, revised a, McCune-Reischauer a, Yale a)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

亞 (simplified 亚, pinyin yā (ya1), yà (ya4), Wade-Giles ya¹, ya⁴)

Compounds

• 亞洲

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Middle Chinese

Han character

亞 (ʔạ̀)

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Vietnamese

Han character

亞 (á, a)

References

• Nom Foundation