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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

哎哟

āiyō

hey

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

hey

02

ow

03

ouch

04

interjection of pain or surprise

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 哎哟 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 哎哟 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

哎哟,撞到你了,对不起!āi yō, zhuàng dào nǐ le, duì bù qǐ!

Ah, I hit you, sorry!

你不要感冒了啦,哎哟。nǐ bú yào gǎn mào le la, āi yō。

No published English translation for this sentence.

哎哟,碰上堵车,急死人了!āi yō, pèng shàng dǔ chē, jí sǐ rén le!

No published English translation for this sentence.

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 哎哟

What does 哎哟 mean in Chinese?

哎哟 (āiyō) means hey.

How do you pronounce 哎哟?

哎哟 is pronounced āiyō.

Is 哎哟 an HSK word?

哎哟 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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