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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

啊呀

āyā

interjection of surprise

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

interjection of surprise

02

Oh my!

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 啊呀 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 啊呀 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

啊呀,我弄错了。a ya, wǒ nòng cuò le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

啊呀,我搞错了。a ya, wǒ gǎo cuò le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

啊呀,马路三宝!a ya, mǎ lù sān bǎo!

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 啊呀

What does 啊呀 mean in Chinese?

啊呀 (āyā) means interjection of surprise.

How do you pronounce 啊呀?

啊呀 is pronounced āyā.

Is 啊呀 an HSK word?

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

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