丫
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fork; branch; bifurcation; girl
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 丨 +2
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 丫
- Common rank
- #2,648
- Unicode
- U+4E2B
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 丫 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A forked line 丨
Components 丷 丨
Words with 丫
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 丫头片子 | (coll.) silly girl; little girl | |
| 黄毛丫头 | silly little girl | |
| 丫巴儿 | fork (of a tree, road, argument etc); bifurcation; fork junction | |
| 脚丫子 | (coll.) foot | |
| 颠儿丫子 | see 顛兒|颠儿[dian1 r5] | |
| 撒丫子 | (dialect) to scamper off; to take to one's heels; to make oneself scarce | |
| 丫子 | see 腳丫子|脚丫子[jiao3 ya1 zi5] | |
| 丫头 | girl; servant girl; (used deprecatingly, but sometimes also as a term of endearment) | |
| 丫角 | traditional hairstyle for children, with two pointy braids, giving it a horn-like appearan… | |
| 脚丫 | (coll.) foot | |
| 丫环 | servant girl; maid | |
| 枝丫 | variant of 枝椏|枝桠[zhi1 ya1] | |
| 丫挺 | (Beijing dialect) bastard; damned | |
| 丫杈 | fork (of a tree); tool made of forked wood | |
| 丫髻 | bun (of hair); topknot | |
| 丫鬟 | servant girl; maid |
Sound family
These characters use 丫 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 丫 sound part | forked; bifurcation | |
| 吖 | used in transliterations |