鸦 — Chinese character
鸦
yā
crow; Corvus species (various)
- Pinyin
- yā
- Radical
- 196 ⿃ (Bird)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 牙 鸟
- Formation
- pictophonetic — bird; meaning component 鸟; sound component 牙
- Traditional
- 鴉
Common words with 鸦
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 鸦片 (鴉片) | yā piàn | (loanword) opium |
| 涂鸦 (塗鴉) | tú yā | graffiti; scrawl |
| 乌鸦 (烏鴉) | wū yā | crow; raven |
| 鸦雀无声 (鴉雀無聲) | yā què wú shēng | lit. crow and peacock make no sound; absolute silence (idiom); not a single voice can be heard |
| 乌鸦嘴 (烏鴉嘴) | wū yā zuǐ | crow's beak; (fig.) person who makes an inauspicious remark |
| 渡鸦 (渡鴉) | dù yā | (bird species of China) common raven (Corvus corax) |
| 寒鸦 (寒鴉) | hán yā | (bird species of China) western jackdaw; Eurasian jackdaw (Coloeus monedula) |
| 松鸦 (松鴉) | sōng yā | (bird species of China) Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius) |
| 星鸦 (星鴉) | xīng yā | (bird species of China) spotted nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes) |
| 三趾鸦雀 (三趾鴉雀) | sān zhǐ yā què | (bird species of China) three-toed parrotbill (Paradoxornis paradoxus) |
| 北噪鸦 (北噪鴉) | běi zào yā | (bird species of China) Siberian jay (Perisoreus infaustus) |
| 大嘴乌鸦 (大嘴烏鴉) | dà zuǐ wū yā | (bird species of China) large-billed crow (Corvus macrorhynchos) |
English words written with 鸦
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.