芽
yá HSK7

bud

芽 yá
bud noun
(bound form) bud; sprout; shoot; a tiny part on a seed or plant that will grow into a stem, leaf, or flower

土豆的芽是有毒的。

tǔ​dòu de yá shì yǒu dú de.

Potato sprouts are poisonous.

sprout-like thing
(bound form) something shaped like or resembling a sprout; specifically used in medical contexts or for certain foods
to bud
(literary) to sprout or germinate
Ya
a Chinese surname
to emerge
(literary) to begin to happen; to start to develop; to germinate (of an idea, conflict, etc.)

Cross-References

Erhua variant of

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,737th most common 14.0 per million
Movie subtitles
2,781st most common 5.02 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.94 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
8.13 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+82BD

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)