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讶

yà

HSK 6 Character Traditional 訝

What 讶 means

1. astounded

Example sentences

• 我真是惊讶。
  I was truly astonished.
• 他非常惊讶。
  He was very surprised.
• 她非常惊讶。
  She was very surprised.
• 不要这幺惊讶！
  Don't act so surprised!
• 这并不让我惊讶。
  It doesn't surprise me.
• 外国人使我惊讶。
  Foreigners astound me.

Words starting with 讶

• 讶异yà yìto be surprised; to be astonished

Words containing 讶

• 惊讶jīng yàamazed; astonished; to surprise
• 怪讶guài yàastonished

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
• 呀ya(particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt)
• 鸦yācrow
• 芽yábud; sprout
• 玡yávariant of 琊
• 砑yàto calender
• 蚜yáaphis
• 伢yá(dialect) child

Characters that look like 讶

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 设shèto set up; to put in place; (math) given; suppose; if
• 证zhèngto admonish; variant of 证
• 讨tǎoto invite; to provoke; to demand or ask for
• 访fǎng(bound form) to seek by inquiry; (bound form) to visit; to call on
• 诅zǔcurse; swear (oath)
• 诏zhào(literary) to admonish; (bound form) imperial edict

Sounds the same

Read yà, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 亚second; next to; inferior
• 娅(literary) term of address between husbands of sisters…
• 压used in 压根儿; used in 压马路; used in 压板
• 氩argon (chemistry)
• 轧to crush; to knock sb down with a vehicle
• 砑to calender
• 揠to eradicate; to pull up
• 迓to receive (as a guest)
• 挜attach; brandish; hold
• 襾cover; radical no 146
• 铔ammonium (old)
• 齾dented; chipped; gap-toothed