压 — Chinese character
压
yā
press; oppress; crush; pressure
- Pinyin
- yā
- Radical
- 27 ⼚ (Cliff)
- Strokes
- 6
- Components
- 厂 土 丶
- Formation
- ideographic — Soil 土 crushed under pressure 厂
- Traditional
- 壓
Common words with 压
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 压力 (壓力) | yā lì | pressure |
| 镇压 (鎮壓) | zhèn yā | suppression; repression |
| 压迫 (壓迫) | yā pò | to oppress; to repress |
| 压缩 (壓縮) | yā suō | to compress; compression |
| 压制 (壓制) | yā zhì | to suppress; to inhibit |
| 高压 (高壓) | gāo yā | (physics) high pressure; (meteorology) high atmospheric pressure |
| 电压 (電壓) | diàn yā | voltage |
| 压抑 (壓抑) | yā yì | to constrain or repress emotions; oppressive |
| 打压 (打壓) | dǎ yā | to suppress; to beat down |
| 施压 (施壓) | shī yā | to pressure |
| 血压 (血壓) | xuè yā | blood pressure |
| 高血压 (高血壓) | gāo xuè yā | high blood pressure; hypertension |
English words written with 压
- pressure
- overwhelming
- voltage
- squeeze
- depressing
- compression
- oppression
- suppression
- suppress
- squash
- repression
- hypertension
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.