呀

Translingual

Han character

Stroke order.

呀 (radical 30 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口一女竹 (RMVH), four-corner 6104₀)

1. particle used to express surprise or mild emphasis
2. slurred form of the number ten (Cantonese)

References

• KangXi: page 180, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3383
• Dae Jaweon: page 398, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 587, character 12
• Unihan data for U+5440

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Cantonese

Hanzi

呀 (Yale a1, a3 a6)

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Japanese

Kanji

呀

Readings

• On: が (ga), か (ka)
• Kun: あ (a), あつ (atsu)

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Korean

Hanja

呀 (hangeul 하, revised ha, McCune-Reischauer ha)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

呀 (pinyin yā (ya1), Wade-Giles ya¹)

Particle

1. The form of 啊 ā after the vowels -a, -o, -e, -i, -ü.

Compounds

• 哎呀

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Vietnamese

Han character

呀 (nha, nhá)