哇 (wā)
wow (exclamation)
How 哇 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- Traditional
- 哇
- Simplified
- 哇 (unchanged)
Components
- 口 mouth
- 圭 N/A
哇 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- wā
- Wow!; sound of child's crying; sound of vomiting
- wa
- replaces 啊[a5] when following the vowel "u" or "ao"
Common words using 哇
- 卡哇伊 kǎwāyī
- cute; adorable; charming (loanword from Japanese)
- 哇哇 wāwā
- sound of crying
- 哇噻 wāsāi
- see 哇塞[wa1 sai1]
- 哇塞 wāsāi
- exclamation used to express a feeling of amazement (slang); wow!
- 哇靠 wākào
- (lit.) I cry!; Oh, bosh!; Shoot!
- 好哇 hǎowā
- hurray!; hurrah!; yippee!
- 爪哇 zhǎowā
- Java (island of Indonesia); Java (programming language)
- 爪哇島 zhǎowādǎo
- Java (island of Indonesia)
哇 in a sentence
哇！這裡的風景好漂亮喔！
Wā! Zhèlǐ de fēngjǐng hǎo piàoliang ō!
“Wow! The scenery here is so beautiful!”
How common is 哇?
哇 is the 2,428th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 98.3% of all running text.
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