a final particle used to express admiration

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangla
laʔ
las

說文解字

安气也。从欠與聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

a final particle used to express admiration Simplified

Components

Sound component
yǔ, yù and
Meaning component
qiàn, qian yawn, deficient

lack

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode