瓦 (ngaa5 | wa3 wa4) : tile; earthenware; pottery; watt

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瓦

ngaa5

wa3 wa4

[粵] ngaa5 [國] wa3
[1] [n] tile; earthenware; pottery
[3] [measure] short for 瓦特 (watt)

[粵] ngaa5 [國] wa4
[v] tile (a roof); cover with tiles

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Radical: 瓦 (#98)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

瓦

This word has been viewed 9514 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 3rd Jan 2015 10:34

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瓦特 ngaa5 dak6 wa3 te4 = watt

千瓦 cin1 ngaa5 qian1 wa3 = kilowatt, a unit of power

薩爾瓦多 saat3 ji5 ngaa5 do1 sa4 er3 wa3 duo1 = El Salvador

瓦解 ngaa5 gaai2 wa3 jie3 = to collapse; to disintegrate

蓋瓦 koi3 ngaa5 = tiling, to cover with tiles

瓦片 ngaa5 pin3*2 wa3 pian4 = roof tile

缸瓦 gong1 ngaa5 gang1 wa3 = a compound of sand, clay, etc. for making earthenware

玻璃瓦 bo1 lei4*1 ngaa5 = a glass tile

瓦通紙板 ngaa5 tung1 zi2 baan2 = corrugated cardboard

明瓦 ming4 ngaa5 = thin, ground pieces of mother-of-pearl, used in windows in place of glass
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瓦礫責死咗兩個人粵
The debris crushed and killed two persons.

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Decimal representation of this word: 瓦
Unicode code for this character: U+74e6 (off-site link)

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