亚
亞Ya4
#420 most
frequent character
Asia, Asian, Taiwan pr. [Ya3]
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
亚 is shorthand for 亞, a drawing of the entrance to a royal tomb. Its first sense was that passage. It then grew to under, next, and inferior. A cursive variant 亜 shaped the simplified 亚.
Drawn as: tomb entry
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