雅 — Chinese character
雅
yǎ
elegant, graceful, refined
- Pinyin
- yǎ
- Radical
- 172 ⾫ (Short Tailed Bird)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 牙 隹
- Formation
- pictophonetic — bird; meaning component 隹; sound component 牙
- Japanese
- 雅 as a kanji
Common words with 雅
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 优雅 (優雅) | yōu yǎ | grace; graceful |
| 高雅 | gāo yǎ | dainty; elegance |
| 典雅 | diǎn yǎ | refined; elegant |
| 文雅 | wén yǎ | elegant; refined |
| 博雅 | bó yǎ | learned |
| 雅致 | yǎ zhì | elegant; refined |
| 无伤大雅 (無傷大雅) | wú shāng dà yǎ | (of a defect etc) to be of no great matter (idiom); harmless |
| 儒雅 | rú yǎ | scholarly; refined |
| 小雅 | xiǎo yǎ | one of the three main divisions of the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经 |
| 大雅 | dà yǎ | one of the three main divisions of the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经 |
| 雅士 | yǎ shì | elegant scholar |
| 雅乐 (雅樂) | yǎ yuè | formal ceremonial music of each succeeding Chinese dynasty starting with the Zhou; Korean a'ak |
English words written with 雅
雅 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 4
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.