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呀
ya
呀 (ya) means "(particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.
What 呀 means
- (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt)
Other readings
Example sentences
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说呀！Speak!
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对呀。Correct.
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哎呀！Whoops!
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救命呀！Help me!
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很大呀！It's so big!
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怎么呀？How?
Words starting with 呀
Words containing 呀
- 哎呀āi yāinterjection of wonder, shock or admiration
- 啊呀ā yāinterjection of surprise; Oh my!
- 吱呀zhī yā(onomatopoeia) creaking
- 天呀tiān yaHeavens!; My goodness!
- 欧咪呀给ōu mī yā gěi(Taiwan) gift given when visiting sb…
- 咿呀学语yī yā xué yǔ(of a baby) to babble
- 吽呀óu yávariant of 吽牙
Characters built on 牙
These share the phonetic component 牙 (yá), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.
- 雅yǎelegant
- 讶yàastounded
- 鸦yācrow
- 芽yábud; sprout
- 玡yávariant of 琊
- 砑yàto calender
- 蚜yáaphis
- 伢yá(dialect) child
Characters that look like 呀
Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.
- 明míngbright; opposite: dark 暗; (of meaning) clear
- 纲gānghead rope of a fishing net; guiding principle; key link
- 侍shìto serve; to attend upon
- 玡yávariant of 琊
- 呣ḿinterjection expressing a question
- 狎xiá(bound form; literary) to take liberties with sb or sth; to treat frivolously
Where 呀 is taught
In the GraphChinese course it is part of Logical connectives & conjunctions (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.
Go deeper
- Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
- How characters are built from components.
- How to learn Chinese characters.
- The four tones and the neutral tone, to read ya correctly.
- Look up another word in the free dictionary.
Looking a word up is not learning it. GraphChinese puts all of HSK 1–6 into one dependency graph, teaches each piece only once its prerequisites are solid, and schedules reviews to land just before you would forget.
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