"Y" meaning in Chinese

See Y in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Character

IPA: /waɪ̯⁵¹/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /wɐi̯⁵⁵/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /u⁴⁴⁻²² ai⁴⁴/ [Hokkien, Xiamen], /uai⁵⁵/ [Sinological-IPA, Teochew], /waɪ̯⁵¹/, /wɐi̯⁵⁵/, /u⁴⁴⁻²² ai⁴⁴/, /uai⁵⁵/, /ua⁵⁵ i²¹/ Chinese transliterations: wài [Mandarin, Pinyin], wai⁴ [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄨㄞˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo], wai¹ [Cantonese, Jyutping], u-ai [Hokkien, POJ], uai⁵ [Peng'im, Teochew], ¹ua-i, wài [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], wài [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], wai⁴ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], wài [Mandarin, Yale], way [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], вай [Mandarin, Palladius], vaj [Mandarin, Palladius], wāi [Cantonese, Yale], wai¹ [Cantonese, Pinyin], wei¹ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], u-ai [Hokkien, Tai-lo], u'ay [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], uâi [POJ, Teochew], ¹ua-i [Wu], ua^平 i [Wu], /ua⁵⁵ i²¹/ [Wu]
Head templates: {{head|zh|letter}} Y
  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Latin alphabet. Tags: letter
    Sense id: en-Y-zh-character-~QFxkgWt Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 53 47

Character

IPA: /i⁵⁵/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /jä⁵⁵/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /i⁵⁵/, /jä⁵⁵/ Chinese transliterations: yī [Mandarin, Pinyin], yā [Mandarin, Pinyin], yi¹ [Mandarin, Pinyin], ya¹ [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄧ [Mandarin, bopomofo], ㄧㄚ [Mandarin, bopomofo], yī [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], yi [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], i¹ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], yī [Mandarin, Yale], i [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], и [Mandarin, Palladius], i [Mandarin, Palladius], yā [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], ya [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], ya¹ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], yā [Mandarin, Yale], ia [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], я [Mandarin, Palladius], ja [Mandarin, Palladius]
Head templates: {{head|zh|letter}} Y
  1. The twenty-fifth letter used in Pinyin. Tags: letter
    Sense id: en-Y-zh-character-ZZ1g5-xZ Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Chinese terms written in foreign scripts Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Disambiguation of Chinese terms written in foreign scripts: 35 65

Download JSON data for Y meaning in Chinese (4.1kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (ae36afe and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.