亞

See also: 亚

Translingual

Traditional	亞
Shinjitai	亜
Simplified	亚

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 俹, 𠜲, 㝞, 啞, 埡, 堊, 婭, 孲, 掗, 𡈀, 𡱻, 𡹄, 𡹅, 𢛟, 𣵾, 㰳, 䢝, 惡, 椏, 氬, 𢩔, 𣂪, 𣇩, 𤊗, 𤦩, 𦜖, 𦲕, 䃁, 琧, 瘂, 稏, 𠨣, 𤲢, 𥏝, 𥦳, 蝁, 𠼞, 𥮳, 𥺼, 𦩒, 𫡷, 䛩, 𨁶, 錏, 閸, 𩜄, 𩓩, 𩗽, 𩩤, 𬪿, 𩤃, 𩭯, 鵶, 𢑹, 𩸇, 𩸋, 𩸖

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		亞
simp.		亚
alternative forms		亜 𠀓

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 亞
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Oracle bone script j29651 j29652 j29653 j29654 j29655 j29656 j29657 j29658 j29659 j29660 j29661 j29662 j29663 j29664 j29665 j29666 j29667 j29668 j29669 j29670 j29671 j29672 j29673 j29674 j29675 j29676 j29677 j29678 j29679 j29680 j29681 j29682 j29683 j29684 j29685 j29686 j29687 j29688 j29689 j29690 j29691 j29692 j29693 j29694 j29695 j29696 j29697 j29698 j29699 j29700 j29701 j29702 j29703 j29704 j29705 j29706 j29707 j29708 j29709 j29710 j29711 j29712 j29713 j29714 j29715 j29716 j29717 j29718 j29719 j29720 j29721 j29722 j29723 j29724 j29725 j29726 j29727 j29728 j29729 j29730 j29731 Bronze inscriptions b19832 b19833 b19834 b19835 b19836 b19837 b19838 b19839 b19840 b19841 b19842 b19843 b19844 b19845 b19846 b19847 b19848 b19849 b19850 b19851 b19852 b19853 b19854 Small seal script s10917 Transcribed ancient scripts L36894 L23820 L23821 L23822 L23823 L23824 L23825 L23826 L23827
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (亞) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
椏	*qaːʔ, *qraː
錏	*qraː
鵶	*qraː
啞	*qraːʔ, *qraːɡs, *qraːɡ, *qraːɡ
瘂	*qraːʔ
亞	*qraːɡs
婭	*qraːɡs
俹	*qraːɡs
稏	*qraːɡs
惡	*qaː, *qaːɡs, *qaːɡ
噁	*qaːɡs
堊	*qaːɡ
蝁	*qaːɡ

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

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 亞

1. (obsolete) a house
2. second; inferior
3. (～州) Short for 亞細亞／亚细亚 (Yàxìyà, “Asia”).
4. a surname

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Japanese

Shinjitai	亜
Kyūjitai	亞

Kanji

亞

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

1. rank
2. follow
3. sub- prefix

Readings

• Go-on: え (e)
• Kan-on: あ (a); あつ (atsu); おう (ō)
• Kun: つぎ (tsugi, 亞ぎ); つぐ (tsugu, 亞ぐ)

References

Usage notes

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

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Korean

Hanja

亞 (eum 아 (a))

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

References

• Dan Bravender's Hanja Dictionary (http://hanjadic.bravender.net/)

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Vietnamese

Han character

亞: Hán Nôm readings: á, a

1. Asia
2. Asiatic

References

• Nom Foundation
• Chunom.org