啞
yǎyā HSK7

dumb

哑 (啞) yǎ frequency
dud adjective
of a bullet or bomb, failing to explode

这枚炮弹落地后没响，原来是个哑的。

zhè méi pào​dàn luò​dì hòu méi xiǎng, yuán​lái shì gè yǎ de.

This shell didn't go off after landing; it turned out to be a dud.

hoarse verb
of a voice, sounding husky or rough

他的嗓子由于感冒而变哑了。

tā de sǎng​zi yóu​yú gǎn​mào ér biàn yǎ le.

His voice went hoarse because of a cold.

mute verb
incapable of speech

因为那次事故，他不但聋了，而且哑了。

yīn​wèi nà cì shì​gù, tā bù​dàn lóng le, ér​qiě yǎ le.

Because of that accident, he was not only deaf but also mute.

哑 (啞) yā
caw descriptive
(onom.) the sound of a crow or similar bird cawing

树上的乌鸦发出哑哑的叫声。

shù​shàng de wū​yā fā​chū yā yā de jiào​shēng.

The crows in the tree were cawing.

babble descriptive
(onom.) the sound made by an infant learning to speak

小宝宝在襁褓中发出哑哑之声。

xiǎo​bǎo​bǎo zài qiǎng​bǎo zhōng fā​chū yā​yā zhī shēng.

The baby made babbling sounds in its swaddling clothes.

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,368th most common 22.8 per million
Movie subtitles
2,602nd most common 7.07 per million appears in 4% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.56 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
5.71 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
哑
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+555E

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