腋 — Chinese character
腋
yè
armpit
- Pinyin
- yè
- Radical
- 130 ⾁ (Meat)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 夜
- Formation
- pictophonetic — flesh; meaning component ⺼; sound component 夜
- Japanese
- 腋 as a kanji
Common words with 腋
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 腋毛 | yè máo | armpit hair |
| 腋下 | yè xià | underarm; armpit |
| 腋窝 (腋窩) | yè wō | armpit |
| 腋生 | yè shēng | axillary (botany); budding in the angle between branch and stem |
| 腋芽 | yè yá | axillary bud; bud growing from axil of plant |
| 腋臭 | yè chòu | body odor; bromhidrosis |
| 集腋成裘 | jí yè chéng qiú | many hairs make a fur coat (idiom); many small contributions add up to sth big; many a mickle makes a muckle |
| 肘腋 | zhǒu yè | lit. armpit; elbow and armpit |
| 变生肘腋 (變生肘腋) | biàn shēng zhǒu yè | lit. calamity in one's armpit (idiom); a major coup happening on one's doorstep; trouble or danger in one's own backyard |
English words written with 腋
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.