啊

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Translingual [edit]

Stroke order
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Etymology [edit]

口 (meaning: mouth) + 阿 (phonetic: a).

Han character [edit]

啊 (radical 30 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口弓中口 (RNLR), four-corner 61020)

  1. exclamatory particle

References [edit]

Cantonese [edit]

simpl. and trad.
啊

Hanzi [edit]

啊 (Yale a1, a2, a3)

Japanese [edit]

Kanji [edit]

啊

Readings [edit]

Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

啊 (hangeul 아, revised a, McCune-Reischauer a)

Mandarin [edit]

simpl. and trad.
啊

Pronunciation [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

啊 (pinyin ā (a1), á (a2, ǎ (a3), à (a4), a (a5), Wade-Giles a1, a2, a3, a4, a)

Interjection [edit]

啊 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin ā)

  1. used by itself to express surprise; ah, oh, ha
    啊！我又赢了！
    Ā! Wǒ yòu yíng le!
    Ha! I've won again!

Particle [edit]

啊 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin a)

  1. placed at the end of a sentence to express surprise; softens the request; indicates approval.

Usage notes [edit]

Only used after words ending in -ng, ci, zi, si, chi, zhi, shi. See 呀 yā, 哇 wā, 哪 nā, [[]] lā.

References [edit]

Min Nan [edit]

simpl. and trad.
啊

Pronunciation [edit]

Interjection [edit]

啊 (traditional and simplified, POJ a)

  1. ah; oh

Usage notes [edit]

  • placed at the end of a sentence, or used by itself to express surprise.

References [edit]

  • "啊" (in Taiwanese/English), On-line Taiwanese/Mandarin Dictionary (台文／華文線頂辭典). URL accessed on 2011-01-29.

Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

啊 (a, à, ạ)

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