叶 (葉) yè

1. yè noun leaf; foliage; petal
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Botany
   Notes: (Guoyu '葉' n 1; Kroll 2015 '葉' 1, p. 540; Unihan '葉'; XHZD '叶' 1)
2. yè verb to grow leaves
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '葉' 1a, p. 540)
3. yè noun a simile for a small and light object
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '葉' 3, p. 540)
4. yè noun page
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Same as 书页 page of a book (Guoyu '葉' n 4; Unihan '葉'; XHZD '叶' 2)
5. yè noun period
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 时期; for example 唐朝中叶 'mid-Tang' (Guoyu '葉' n 3; Kroll 2015 '葉' 2, p. 540; Unihan '葉'; XHZD '叶' 3)
6. yè proper noun Ye
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (Guoyu '葉' n 7; XHZD '叶' 4)
7. yè noun a sheet
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of a thin, flat object (Guoyu '葉' n 2， 5; XHZD '叶' 2)
8. yè measure word a measure word for small boats or sheets of paper
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '葉' n 6)
9. shè proper noun She
   Domain: History 历史 , Subdomain: China , Concept: Place Name 地名
   Notes: Name of a place in the State of Chu in the Spring and Autumn period (Guoyu '葉' shè)

Contained in

• 茶叶(茶葉) tea; tea-leaves
• 七叶树(七葉樹) horse chestnut
• 皱叶欧芹(皺葉歐芹) curled-leaf parsley (Petroselinum crispum)
• 干叶(乾葉) dried leaf
• 金额叶鹎(金額葉鵯) golden-fronted leafbird (Chloropsis aurifrons)
• 茶叶末(茶葉末) tea powder
• 蓝翅叶鹎(藍翅葉鵯) blue-winged leafbird (Chloropsis cochinchinensis)
• 冰叶日中花(冰葉日中花) ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum)
• 脑叶(腦葉) lobe of the brain
• 秋风扫落叶(秋風掃落葉) as the autumn gale sweeps away the fallen leaves; to drive out the old and make a clean sweep
• 叶韵(叶韻) to rhyme
• 牡丹虽好，全仗绿叶扶(牡丹雖好，全仗綠葉扶) Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves . However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.
• 柊叶(柊葉) Phrynium capitatum
• 叶门(葉門) Yemen
• 柳叶(柳葉) willow leaves
• 枯叶(枯葉) dead leaf; withered leaf
• 枫叶(楓葉) maple leaf
• 叶片状(葉片狀) foliated; striated into thin leaves
• 艾叶(艾葉) mugwort leaf (TCM); Folium Artemisiae argyi
• 四叶草(四葉草) four-leaf clover
• 叶片(葉片) a vane; a leaf ; propellor blade
• 叶柄(葉柄) petiole
• 千叶(千葉) Chiba
• 飞叶子(飛葉子) to smoke pot
• 茶叶末儿(茶葉末兒) tea leaves powder
• 蒌叶(蔞葉) betel
• 有枝有叶(有枝有葉) to become bogged down in the details
• 叶缘(葉緣) leaf edge
• 针叶(針葉) needle-leaved (tree)
• 月桂叶(月桂葉) bay leaf; laurel leaf
• 番泻叶(番瀉葉) senna leaf (Folium sennae)
• 香叶(香葉) bay leaf; laurel leaf
• 叶脉(葉脈) venation
• 芫荽叶(芫荽葉) coriander leaf
• 叶子(葉子) foliage; leaf ; playing cards ; page of a book ; gold leaf ; tobacco
• 羽状复叶(羽狀複葉) bipinnate leaf
• 初叶(初葉) early part (of a decade, century etc); the first years
• 贝叶棕(貝葉棕) pattra palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras
• 合叶(合葉) hinge
• 落叶植物(落葉植物) deciduous plant; deciduous vegetation
• 条叶(條葉) branch and leaf

Also contained in

叶问 、 叶县 、 莲华荷叶 、 傅里叶 、 叶圣陶 、 麻叶瓮 、 叶伟文 、 叶城县 、 兰叶描 、 叶飞

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• 第九十八回 Chapter 98 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 60
• 卷二百一十五下 列傳第一百四十下 突厥下 Volume 215b Biographies 140b: Tujie 2 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 48
• 卷一百九十四下 列傳第一百四十四下: 突厥下 Volume 194 Biographies 144: Tujie 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 35
• 卷五 中山經 Chapter 5: Classic of the Mountains - Central Classic of Mountains and Seas 山海經 — count: 24
• 卷二百一十七上 列傳第一百四十二上 回鶻上 Volume 217a Biographies 142a: Huihu 1 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 22
• 卷七十八　志第二十八: 　輿服一 Volume 78 Treatises 31: Carriages and Clothes 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 20
• 卷四 Scroll 4 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 19
• 卷二百十三 表第四 宰輔四 Volume 213 Tables 4: Chancellors 4 History of Song 宋史 — count: 19
• 卷五 Scroll 5 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 18
• 卷一百九十八 列傳第一百四十八: 西戎 Volume 198 Biographies 148: Western Regions Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 17

Collocations

• 叶公 (葉公) 葉公諸梁之弟后臧 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 定公 Lord Ding — count: 27
• 一叶 (一葉) 大渾而為一葉 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷一　原道訓 Chapter 1: The Original Way — count: 8
• 叶公子 (葉公子) 葉公子高問政於仲尼曰 — Mozi 墨子, 卷十一 耕柱 Book 11 - Geng Zhu — count: 7
• 苦叶 (苦葉) 匏有苦葉 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧邶‧匏有苦葉 Lessons from the states - Odes of Bei - Pao You Ku Ye — count: 5
• 瓠叶 (瓠葉) 瓠葉 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧魚藻之什‧瓠葉 Minor odes of the kingdom - Yu Zao Zhi Shen - Hu Ye — count: 5
• 万叶 (萬葉) 連千枝萬葉 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷二　俶真訓 Chapter 2: Starting with the Truth — count: 4
• 叶阳 (葉陽) 葉陽君悝出之國 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《秦本紀》 Annals of Qin — count: 4
• 叶落 (葉落) 見一葉落 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十六　說山訓 Chapter 16: A Mountain of Persuasion — count: 4
• 支叶 (支葉) 是以支葉扶疏 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷六十三 武五子傳 Volume 63: The five sons of Emperor Wu — count: 4
• 楮叶 (楮葉) 宋人有以象為其君為楮葉者 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷二十　泰族訓 Chapter 20: superior Lineage — count: 4