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哎哟

āi yō

HSK 6 2-character word Traditional 哎喲

What 哎哟 means

1. hey
2. ow
3. ouch
4. interjection of pain or surprise

The characters in 哎哟

• 哎āihey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation)
• 哟yōOh! (interjection indicating slight surprise); also pr. yāo

Example sentences

• 哎哟，撞到你了，对不起！
  āiyō, zhuàngdào nǐ le, duìbuqǐ!
  Ah, I hit you, sorry!

Sounds the same

Read āi yō, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 哎唷interjection of pain or surprise; also written 哎哟

Where 哎哟 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · āi–hē (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read āi yō correctly.
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