崖 — Chinese character
崖
yá
cliff, precipice; precipitous
- Pinyin
- yá
- Radical
- 46 ⼭ (Mountain)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 山 厓
- Formation
- ideographic — A mountain 山 precipice 厓; 厓 also provides the pronunciation
- Japanese
- 崖 as a kanji
Common words with 崖
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 悬崖 (懸崖) | xuán yá | precipice; overhanging cliff |
| 断崖 (斷崖) | duàn yá | steep cliff; crag |
| 山崖 | shān yá | cliff |
| 悬崖勒马 (懸崖勒馬) | xuán yá lè mǎ | lit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom); fig. to act in the nick of time |
| 崖壁 | yá bì | escarpment; precipice |
| 悬崖峭壁 (懸崖峭壁) | xuán yá qiào bì | (idiom) sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces |
| 陡崖 | dǒu yá | steep cliff; precipice |
| 坠崖 (墜崖) | zhuì yá | to fall from a cliff |
| 跳崖 | tiào yá | to jump off a cliff |
| 悬崖绝壁 (懸崖絕壁) | xuán yá jué bì | see 悬崖峭壁 (xuán yá qiào bì) |
| 崖谷 | yá gǔ | valley; ravine |
| 崖岸 | yá àn | cliff; steep slope |
English words written with 崖
崖 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 14
- Zhuangzi Man Among Men
- Zhuangzi The Universe
- Zhuangzi The Tao of God
- Zhuangzi Autumn Floods
- Zhuangzi Mountain Trees
- Zhuangzi Knowledge travels North
- Zhuangzi Hsü Wu Kuei
- Zhuangzi The Empire
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.