Hai Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Bird (niǎo) Character: Ya Kangxi strokes: 19 Page 1492, Entry 21 Pronounced ya. Same as ya. Also a place name. Record of Red Lead Annotations (Danqian Lu Zhu) states: The Three Yas are located in Ruzhou, historically known as Raojiao City. Xiangcheng County is the first Ya, the branch-governed mountain is the second Ya, and Ruzhou is the third Ya. A poem by Han Yi says: A person returning to the water of the Three Yas.