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Mythic Mandarin

衙役 (yá yì): meaning and stroke order

衙役 (yá yì) means bailiff of feudal yamen.

衙役

Simplified
衙役
Traditional
衙役 (same form)
Pinyin
yá yì

Stroke order of 衙役

衙

  • Yá surname Ya
  • yá office; yamen 衙門|衙门
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

役

  • yì forced labor; corvée
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 衙役

  1. yá yì
    • bailiff of feudal yamen

Radicals of the characters

衙
Radical 行 (Kangxi radical 144) · 13 strokes
役
Radical 彳 (Kangxi radical 60) · 7 strokes · 彳 on the left, 殳 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

衙役 in our stories

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  • 第二天，张别古抱着瓦盆去了县衙。可是大堂上，他叫了半天，盆里一点声音也没有，衙役们哄堂大笑。

    dì-èr tiān Zhāng Biégǔ bào zhe wǎpén qù le xiànyá kěshì dàtáng shàng tā jiào le bàntiān pén lǐ yìdiǎn shēngyīn yě méiyǒu yáyì men hōngtáng dàxiào

    The next day Zhang Biegu carried the basin to the county court. But in the courtroom, however much he called, not a sound came from the basin, and the constables roared with laughter.

    From the story The tale of the black basin HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 衙役

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).