哇
wāwa HSK6

wow!

哇 wā frequency
wow interjection
Wow!; sound of a child crying or someone vomiting

我的反应只是“哇”。

wǒ​de fǎn​yìng zhǐ​shì“ wā”.

My reaction was just ‘wow’.

indecent music
(literary) decadent or lewd music
to vomit
to spit out or vomit
哇 wa
[sentence-final]
Replaces 啊 a when following a word that ends in a 'u', 'ao', or 'ou' sound to express exclamation or excitement

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,433rd most common 21.0 per million
Movie subtitles
625th most common 221.3 per million appears in 52% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
296.6 per million appears in 51% of films
Written text
112.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+54C7

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)