雅

雅 U+96C5, 雅
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96C5
← 雄
[U+96C4] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 集 →
[U+96C6]

Translingual

Han character

雅 (radical 172 隹+4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一竹人土 (MHOG), four-corner 70214, composition ⿰牙隹)

References

  • KangXi: page 1365, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41973
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1869, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4094, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+96C5

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 雅

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (牙) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
邪 *ljaː, *laː
衺 *ljaː
牙 *ŋraː
芽 *ŋraː
齖 *ŋraː, *ŋraːs
呀 *ŋraː, *hŋraː
枒 *ŋraː, *ŋraːs
雅 *ŋraːʔ
厊 *ŋraːʔ
庌 *ŋraːʔ
訝 *ŋraːs
迓 *ŋraːs
砑 *ŋraːs
犽 *ŋraːs
疨 *hŋraː
岈 *hŋraː
谺 *hŋraː
颬 *hŋraː
鴉 *qraː
釾 *laː

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 雅 – see 鴉 (“crow; raven”).
(This character, 雅, is a variant form of 鴉.)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Note:
  • ngá - literary;
  • ngée - vernacular.
Rime
Character 雅
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 麻 (98)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 五下切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋˠaX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋᵚaX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋaX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋaɨX/
Li
Rong		 /ŋaX/
Wang
Li		 /ŋaX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋaX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yǎ
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 雅 雅
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yǎ yǎ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngæX › ‹ ngæX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*N-ɢˤraʔ/ /*[N-ɢ]ˤraʔ/
English proper, refined kind of musical instrument

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 雅
Reading # 1/1
No. 14182
Phonetic
component		 牙
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 雅
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋraːʔ/

Definitions

雅

  1. elegant, graceful, refined
  2. (Teochew) pretty
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 漂亮 (“good-looking; beautiful”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 漂亮
Mandarin Beijing 好看、漂亮、俊
Taiwan 好看、漂亮、俊
Tianjin 俊、漂亮、好看
Jinan 好看、漂亮、俊
Xi'an 好看、排場、心疼
Wuhan 好看、漂亮、乖
Yangzhou 好看、標緻
Hefei 好看、漂亮、排場
Cantonese Guangzhou 好睇、靚
Hong Kong 好睇、靚
Yangjiang 好看、好樣、靚、整齊
Gan Nanchang 客氣、好看
Hakka Meixian 好看、靚、善、精
Jin Taiyuan 好看、惜人、客戲
Min Bei Jian'ou 好覷、雅式、生得好
Min Dong Fuzhou 俊、生得好、卓佳
Min Nan Xiamen 媠、好看、緣投
Chaozhou 雅、好睇
Wu Shanghai 漂亮、好看
Suzhou 好看、標緻、漂亮
Wenzhou 好眙、生好、骨切
Xiang Changsha 好看、漂亮
Shuangfeng 好看、漂亮
Compounds

References

  • Duffus, William, “beautiful” (p. 19) in English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Swatow, English Presbyterian Mission Press, 1883.

Japanese

Kanji

雅

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. gracious
  2. elegant
  3. graceful
  4. refined

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
雅
が
Grade: S
on’yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 雅 (ngæX, “elegant”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

雅 (-na inflection, hiragana が, rōmaji ga)

  1. elegant

Inflection

Noun

雅 (hiragana が, rōmaji ga)

  1. elegance

Antonyms

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

雅 • (a) (hangeul 아, revised a, McCune–Reischauer a, Yale a)

  1. elegant, neat, tidy

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

雅 (nhã)

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