Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Time & Sequence

亜: Asia, rank next

Also: come after, -ous

JLPT N17 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

二 carries the meaning · 口 is drawn in

7 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Today

Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

アa · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 東亜とうあEast Asia; the Orient
  • 亜鉛あえんzinc (Zn)
  • 亜熱帯あねったいsubtropics
  • 亜流ありゅう(inferior) imitator; epigone; poor imitation
  • 白亜はくあchalk (rock)
  • 亜種あしゅsubspecies

Also read つぐ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“One line above, one line below—a perfect pair! This radical is the foundation of balance and counting.”
More in the 二 two story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
二

Also built on two (二)

All 15
口

Also built on mouth (口)

All 108

亜 gives its sound to

Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read ア

1 kanji shares this on'yomi
In ChineseSimplified 亚 · traditional 亞 · yà

Three different forms: Japanese 亜, simplified 亚, traditional 亞.

Simplified
亚 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
亞 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin yà most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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