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Yá

Meanings

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Yá
  1. 1.surname Ya
yá
  1. 1.office
  2. 2.yamen 衙门

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.public office
  2. 2.official residence
  3. 3.a surname
  4. 4.only used in 衙衙 (“walking; marching (of troops)”)

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ŋraː, *ŋa, *ŋaʔ): semantic 行 + phonetic 吾 (OC *ŋraː, *ŋaː). From 牙 (MC ngae, “tooth”)

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Stroke order

Components

衙行吾

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Derived terms

三衙三衙家判衙吃衙門飯吃衙门饭官衙府衙押衙捕衙排衙散衙早衙柳衙清水衙門清水衙门總理衙門总理衙门蜂衙衙內衙内衙官屈宋衙差衙役衙推衙署衙蠹衙門衙门衙門差役衙门差役

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Related words

衙门 yamen, government office in dynastic China衙署 government office in feudal China衙役 bailiff of feudal yamen衙内 child of an official总理衙门 the Qing dynasty equivalent of the Foreign Office铁打的衙门，流水的官 lit. the yamen is strong as iron, the officials flow like water (idiom)