衙 · yá
public office; official residence
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
public office; official residence
- Mandarin
- yá
- Cantonese
- ngaa4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 衙 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 아
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+8859
- Radical
- 行 · 144
- Strokes
- 13 · Unihan
- Residual
- 7
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
13 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 衙
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 吾 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 吾聲
Line 1069 · ⿴行吾 · 吾聲 · source reference 0370080
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- ngjo · 語居 反切 · #226
- Middle Chinese
- ngae · 五加 反切 · #785
- Middle Chinese
- ngjoX · 魚巨 反切 · #1324
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 1895 · ngjo = 遇開三平魚疑 · ngae = 假開二平麻疑 · ngjoX = 遇開三上魚疑
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- yá
- kCantonese
- ngaa4
- kDefinition
- public office; official residence
- kTotalStrokes
- 13
- kRSUnicode
- 144.7
- kTGH
- 2013:2964
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- yú,yá,yù 20837.070
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- yá 1320.060
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- yá 420.090
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- yá粵ngaa4
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 語居 五加 魚巨
- Kangxi positions
- 1109.240
- Guangyun positions
- 066.24 168.10 256.11
- GSR references
- 0058s
- Cangjie
- HOMRN
- Four-corner
- 2160.1