压 · yā
press; oppress; crush; pressure
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
press; oppress; crush; pressure
- Mandarin
- yā
- Cantonese
- aat3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+538B
- Radical
- 厂 · 27
- Strokes
- 6 · Unihan
- Residual
- 4
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
6 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 压
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
壓
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- yā
- kCantonese
- aat3
- kDefinition
- press; oppress; crush; pressure
- kTotalStrokes
- 6
- kRSUnicode
- 27.4
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+538B U+58D3
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+538B
- kTGH
- 2013:385
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- yā 1317.050 · yà 1321.060
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- yā 419.020 · yà 420.140
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- yā(625)