Pinyin Syllable

Chinese characters pronounced yai

Learn common Chinese characters pronounced yai, including 崖 yá / yái. Compare tones, meanings, traditional forms, words, and example sentences.

How to Pronounce This Syllable

For yai, let the y- glide flow into ai without a break, holding the tone over the joined syllable.

Start the syllable on the initial y, then run straight into the final ai — keep them joined instead of sounding out separate English letters.

Settle the final ai into a steady mouth shape first, then lay the tone on top.

Only one common character is read yai (崖 yá / yái) — focus on locking in its tone.

yai turns up here with 1 different tone; a change of tone usually means a different character, so the groups below are split by tone.

Taking the 2nd tone here: 崖 (1 in total). Lock this tone in your ear before the meaning.

Seeing yai inside whole words makes it clear which character is meant — here are common ones.

1 common character in this group.