yo

ah

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

约 sound component

  Sound component

yuēyāo

  

agreement

Evolution

哟 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
哟 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

ah, final particle; Oh! (interjection indicating slight surprise)

() 

yo

(sentence-final particle expressing exhortation); (syllable filler in a song)

Most common words with 哟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

(syllable filler in a song)

哎哟

hey

啊哟

Oh

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 10.6199% of movies

1795th most common character in movies

2524th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+54DF


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