崖
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precipice; cliff; Taiwan pr. [yai2]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 山 +8
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 崖
- Common rank
- #2,166
- Unicode
- U+5D16
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Formation & memory
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How 崖 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A mountain 山 precipice 厓; 厓 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
cliff · Heisig RSH #1930
山 mountain + cliff + bricks
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 崖
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 崖州区 | Yazhou, a district of Sanya City 三亞市|三亚市[San1 ya4 Shi4], Hainan | |
| 淡色崖沙燕 | (bird species of China) pale martin (Riparia diluta) | |
| 断崖式 | (of a fall in price, temperature etc) steep; precipitous | |
| 悬崖勒马 | lit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom); fig. to act in the nick of… | |
| 崖沙燕 | (bird species of China) sand martin (Riparia riparia) | |
| 山崖 | cliff | |
| 崖州 | ancient name for Hainan Island 海南島|海南岛[Hai3 nan2 Dao3] | |
| 崖州 | see 崖州區|崖州区[Ya2 zhou1 Qu1] | |
| 崖海鸦 | (bird species of China) common murre (Uria aalge) | |
| 悬崖绝壁 | see 懸崖峭壁|悬崖峭壁[xuan2 ya2 qiao4 bi4] | |
| 断崖 | steep cliff; crag; precipice | |
| 珠崖 | Zhuya, historic name for Hainan Island 海南島|海南岛[Hai3 nan2 Dao3] | |
| 崖谷 | valley; ravine | |
| 茫崖市 | Mangnai, a county-level city in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州[… | |
| 崖略 | (literary) outline; general idea; rough sketch | |
| 跳崖 | to jump off a cliff | |
| 崖壁 | escarpment; precipice; cliff | |
| 崖限 | cliff barring the way; fig. brick wall | |
| 崖刻 | rock carving; cliff engraving; words carved into cliff face | |
| 悬崖 | precipice; overhanging cliff |