芽
yá HSK7

bud

芽 yá
bud noun
a small growth on a plant that develops into a leaf, flower, or shoot

春天到了，柳树的枝条上长满了绿色的嫩芽。

chūn​tiān dào le, liǔ​shù de zhī​tiáo shàng zhǎng​mǎn le lǜ​sè de nèn yá.

Spring has arrived, and the willow branches are covered in green buds.

sprout noun
a young shoot of a plant, especially one just emerging from a seed

他在花盆里种下的种子已经冒出了小芽。

tā zài huā​pén lǐ zhòng xià de zhǒng​zi yǐ​jīng mào​chū le xiǎo yá.

The seeds he planted in the flowerpot have already sprouted.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)