aāáǎà

exclamatory particle

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

阿 sound component

  Sound component

āaē

  

name prefix

Definitions

 

a

exclamatory particle; modal particle ending sentence, showing affirmation, approval, or consent

 

ā

interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh!

 

á

interjection expressing doubt or requiring answer; Eh?; what?

 

ǎ

interjection of surprise or doubt; My!; what's up?

 

à

interjection or grunt of agreement; uhm; Ah, OK; expression of recognition; Oh, it's you!

Most common words with 啊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

Ah!

啊呀

Oh my!

啊哟

Oh

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 98.1259% of movies

58th most common character in movies

753rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+554A


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