耶

ye

final particle indicating enthusiasm etc

耶 — the enthusiastic final particle

耶 was borrowed as a phonetic loan to write a spoken exclamatory particle — its components don't carry the current meaning. 耳 and 阝 together approximate the sound; the enthusiastic particle meaning is purely grammaticalized from usage.

耳+阝→耶
耳EarPhonetic
阝PlacePhonetic

今天放假耶,我们去玩吧。

jīn tiān fàng jià ye, wǒ men qù wán ba。

Today is a holiday, let's go have fun.

这个蛋糕好好吃耶,你也来一块。

zhè ge dàn gāo hǎo hāo chī ye, nǐ yě lái yī kuài。

This cake is so delicious, you should have a piece too.

Words with 耶

耶鲁大学

yē lǔ dà xué

Yale University

里维耶拉

lǐ wéi yē lā

riviera (loanword) (Tw)

阿布沙耶夫

ā bù shā yē fū

Abu Sayyaf, militant Islamist separatist group also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya

陀思妥耶夫斯基

tuó sī tuǒ yē fū sī jī

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚[Zui4 yu3 Fa2]

雷扎耶湖

léi zhá yē hú

formerly called lake Rezaiyeh

鲍耶

bào yē

János Bolyai (1802-1860), one of the discoverers of non-Euclidean geometry

克耶族

kè yē zú

Kaya or Karenni ethnic group of Myanmar

克耶邦

kè yē bāng

Kaya state of Myanmar

勒威耶

lè wēi yē

Urbain Le Verrier (1811-1877), French mathematician and astronomer who predicted the position of Neptune

卡波耶拉

kǎ bō yē lā

capoeira (loanword)

史高比耶

shǐ gāo bǐ yē

Skopje, capital of North Macedonia (Tw)

塞拉耶佛

sài lā yē fó

(Tw) Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina

More characters with 耳

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