啊
HSK 2freq #47
Meanings
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- 1.interjection or grunt of agreement
- 2.uhm
- 3.Ah, OK
- 4.expression of recognition
- 5.Oh, it's you!
- 1.interjection of surprise or doubt
- 2.Eh?
- 3.My!
- 4.what's up?
- 1.modal particle ending sentence, showing affirmation, approval, or consent
- 1.interjection expressing doubt or requiring answer
- 2.Eh?
- 3.what?
- 1.interjection of surprise
- 2.Ah!
- 3.Oh!
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Wiktionary
- 1.Used as an initial interjection particle to express surprise. ah, oh, ha
- 2.Used as an initial interjection particle to raise a topic or change the mood. ah, oh, huh
- 3.Used as a final particle to indicate, focus on, or exclaim a topic, subject, declaration, and acts as a filler pause especially when enumerating or changing topic.
- 4.Used as a final particle to express exhortation.
- 5.Used as a final particle to seek for listener's confirmation.
- 6.Used to indicate doubt or questioning. what?, huh?, eh
- 7.Used to indicate puzzled surprise. what? oh? huh?
- 8.Used to indicate agreement/approval. ah
- 9.Sentence-final particle expressing surprise.
- 10.Sentence-final particle expressing exclamation, excitement or enthusiasm.
- 11.Sentence-final particle softening the request.
- 12.Used in enumerations, for confirmation (often untranslated).
- 13.on and on, continuously
- 14.Used between a verb and a complement to indicate that something has happened within a short time and/or is immediately followed by another event.
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 阿 (OC *qaːl).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
火啊!
Fire!
多怪啊!
How weird!
多怪啊!
How curious!
多美啊!
How beautiful!
这是谁啊?
Who's that?
多可爱啊!
How lovely!
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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