耶
ye
3 readings · tap one to hear it
(phonetic ye)
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 耳 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 耶
- Common rank
- #1,246
- Unicode
- U+8036
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
Jerusalem · Heisig RSH #2806
耳 ear + city walls
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 耶
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 巴耶利巴 | Paya Lebar, a place in Singapore | |
| 耶和华见证人 | Jehovah's Witnesses | |
| 阿布沙耶夫 | Abu Sayyaf, militant Islamist separatist group also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya | |
| 里维耶拉 | riviera (loanword) (Tw) | |
| 卡波耶拉 | capoeira (loanword) | |
| 瓦西里耶维奇 | Vasilievich (name) | |
| 耶利米书 | Book of Jeremiah | |
| 法耶德 | (name) Fayed; Mohamed Al-Fayed (1929–2023), Egyptian business magnate | |
| 耶鲁大学 | Yale University | |
| 克耶族 | Kaya or Karenni ethnic group of Myanmar | |
| 纳扎尔巴耶夫 | Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940-), president of Kazakhstan 1990-2019 | |
| 史高比耶 | Skopje, capital of North Macedonia (Tw) | |
| 耶利米 | Jeremy or Jeremiah (name) | |
| 奥维耶多 | Oviedo (Asturian: Uviéu), capital of Asturias in northwest Spain | |
| 梅西耶星表 | Messier catalog of nebulae and clusters (1784) | |
| 耶和华 | Jehovah (biblical name for God, Hebrew: YHWH); compare Yahweh 雅威[Ya3 wei1] and God 上帝[Shan… | |
| 耶律大石 | Yollig Taxin or Yelü Dashi (1087-1143), Chinese-educated Khitan leader, founder of Western… | |
| 莱齐耶三世 | Letsie III of Lesotho | |
| 塞拉耶佛 | (Tw) Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
| 耶哥尼雅 | Jechoniah or Jeconiah (son of Josiah) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 阝 — compare how they read.