呀 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

yayā HSK4

particle used to express surprise or mild emphasis

呀 ya frequency

ah modal particle: (particle equivalent to 啊 a after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt); 他在看书呀。

tā zài kàn shū ya.

He's reading a book!

呀 yā

ah modal particle: interjection used to express surprise; 呀！下雪了。

yā! xiàxuě le.

Oh! It's snowing.

creak modal particle: onomatopoeia for a creaking sound; 门呀的一声开了。

mén yā de yī shēng kāi le.

The door opened with a creak.

Cross-References

Has variant

哑 yā

Frequency

Character

Written text: 929th most common 182.6 per million
Movie subtitles: 586th most common 241.4 per million appears in 41% of films

Word

Movie subtitles: 319.0 per million appears in 38% of films
Written text: 227.5 per million

Details

HSK 2.0: Level 4
HSK 3.0: Level 4
Strokes: 7
Unicode: U+5440

Sources

Definitions: CC-CEDICT
Frequency data: MTSU Chinese text computing SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)