鴉 (aa1 | ya1) : [n] crow; raven

Remove Adverts and gain lots of extra features
What is this page showing me?

鴉

aa1

ya1

[n] crow; raven

Stroke count: 15

Level: 3

Radical: (#196)

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

鴉 / 鸦

This word has been viewed 3684 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 4th Jan 2010 05:44

Output this character as a high resolution image

烏鴉 wu1 aa1 wu1 ya1 = crow; raven

鴉片 aa1 pin3 ya1 pian4 = opium

塗鴉 tou4 aa1 tu2 ya1 = graffiti

天下烏鴉一般黑 tin1 haa6 wu1 aa1 jat1 bun1 hak1 = all bad people in the world are equally black 粵

天下烏鴉一樣黑 tin1 haa6 wu1 aa1 jat1 joeng6 hak1 tian1 xia4 wu1 ya1 yi1 yang4 hei1 = evil people are bad the world over 粵

鴉片戰爭 aa1 pin3 zin3 zang1 = the Opium War (1840-2)

烏鴉嘴 wu1 aa1 zeoi2 wu1 ya1 zui3 = inauspicious remarks; jinx

Legend
國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

Forum Code to link to this word:
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/3733/]鴉[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/3733/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">鴉</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 鴉
Unicode code for this character: U+9d09 (off-site link)

Search CantoDict (safe search is on)

Please note, CantoDict currently supports searching for Simplified Chinese, but results will be returned in Traditional Chinese.

Hide Written and Spoken Hide Written 國 Hide Spoken粵

This page shows, from top to bottom:

a large version of the character in a traditional script font which you may need to install

: the Cantonese Jyutping romanisation (pronunciation) Also, CantoDict uses a unique "asterisk (*)" convention, to show readings such as jyu^4*2. For more information please see CantoDict Tone Conventions.

: the Mandarin pronunciation of the word in pinyin.
a detailed description of all the meanings
the number of strokes needed to write the character correctly
our arbitrarily assigned difficulty level
a smaller version of the character in a computerised, printed font, along with the PRC simplified version if applicable
a list of characters which look similar and are therefore possible sources of confusion (where relevant)
a list of compound words that use this character, ordered by difficulty level.
(we would really appreciate new volunteers to add some more compound words to the database so please post to the CantoDict forum if you would like to spend an occasional 10 mins or so helping)


Characters \| Words \| Sentences \| Chinese Translation \| Chinese Tests \| Forums \| Search Customise CantoDict \| My Vocab Lists \| Useful Reports and Stats \| CantoDict Forum