哇
wāwa HSK6

wow!

哇 wā frequency
wow interjection
exclamation used to express surprise, wonder, or admiration

哇！这里的景色太美了！

wā! zhè​lǐ de jǐng​sè tài měi le!

Wow! The scenery here is beautiful!

crying sound onomatopoeia
onomatopoeia for the sound of a child or baby crying loudly

小宝宝哇地一声哭了出来。

xiǎo​bǎo​bǎo wā de yī shēng kū le chu​lai.

The baby burst into tears with a 'wa' sound.

vomiting sound onomatopoeia
onomatopoeia for the sound made when vomiting

他感到一阵恶心，哇地吐了一地。

tā gǎn​dào yī zhèn ě​xīn, wā de tù le yī dì.

He felt a wave of nausea and vomited all over the floor.

哇 wa
modal particle modal particle
replaces 啊 a when following the vowel "u" or "ao"

真好哇！

zhēn hǎo wa!

That's great!

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)