衙 — Chinese character
衙
yá
public office; official residence
- Pinyin
- yá
- Radical
- 144 ⾏ (Walk Enclosure)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 行 吾
- Formation
- pictophonetic — go; meaning component 行; sound component 吾
- Japanese
- 衙 as a kanji
Common words with 衙
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 衙门 (衙門) | yá men | yamen, government office in dynastic China |
| 衙署 | yá shǔ | government office in feudal China; yamen |
| 衙内 (衙內) | yá nèi | child of an official; palace bodyguard |
| 衙役 | yá yì | bailiff of feudal yamen |
| 总理衙门 (總理衙門) | zǒng lǐ yá men | the Qing dynasty equivalent of the Foreign Office |
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.