哈 (hā)

(sound of laughter)

How 哈 is written

Strokes
9
Radical
口 — mouth
Traditional
哈
Simplified
哈 (unchanged)

哈 has 2 readings

The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.

hā
abbr. for Kazakhstan; abbr. for Harbin
hǎ
a Pekinese; a pug

Common words using 哈

哈哈 hāhā
laughing out loud (onomatopoeia)
哈佛 hāfó
Harvard
哈爾濱 hāěrbīn
Harbin, subprovincial city and capital of Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1] in northeast China
嘻哈 xīhā
hip-hop (music genre)
京哈 jīnghā
Beijing-Harbin
利勒哈默爾 lìlèhāmòěr
Lillehammer (city in Norway)
哈利 hālì
Harry
哈哈大笑 hāhādàxiào
to laugh heartily; to burst into loud laughter
哈哈笑 hāhāxiào
to laugh out loud
哈啾 hājiū
achoo (phonetic particle for sneeze)
哈喇 hāla
rancid; to kill; to slaughter
哈喇子 hālázi
(dialect) saliva

哈 in a sentence

聽到這個笑話,大家都哈哈大笑。

Tīngdào zhè ge xiàohuà, dàjiā dōu hāhā dàxiào.

“Hearing this joke, everyone laughed out loud.”

How common is 哈?

哈 is the 712th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 83.1% of all running text.

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