呀 · ya
particle used to express surprise or mild emphasis; (Cant.) slurred form of the number ten
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
particle used to express surprise or mild emphasis; (Cant.) slurred form of the number ten
- Mandarin
- ya
- Cantonese
- aa1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 呀 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 하
- KS X 1002 (1) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
Go deeperHán Việt (Thi Viện) ↗Wiktionary ↗
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5440
- Radical
- 口 · 30
- Strokes
- 7 · Unihan
- Residual
- 4
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
7 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 呀
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 牙 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 牙聲
Line 12377 · ⿰口牙 · 牙聲 · source reference 022@0968
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
Sentence context · 2 matches
你有冇打火機呀？
Source, contributors & licenses
Cantonese: Tatoeba #364850 · Original contributor: nickyeow · Text editors: nickyeow · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log
English: Tatoeba #29830 · Original contributor: ichivivi20 · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: CM
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- ngae · 五加 反切 · #785
- Middle Chinese
- xae · 許加 反切 · #797
- Middle Chinese
- ngaeH · 吾駕 反切 · #2861
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 6318 · ngae = 假開二平麻疑 · xae = 假開二平麻曉 · ngaeH = 假開二去麻疑
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- ya
- kCantonese
- aa1
- kDefinition
- particle used to express surprise or mild emphasis; (Cant.) slurred form of the number ten
- kTotalStrokes
- 7
- kRSUnicode
- 30.4
- kGradeLevel
- 1
- kTGH
- 2013:729
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- xiā,yā,ya 10587.120
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- yā 1318.010 · ya 1322.040
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- yā 419.030 · ya 421.010
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- ya(1018) yā(398)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- yā粵aa1 ya粵aa1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 五加 許加 吾駕
- Kangxi positions
- 0180.080
- Guangyun positions
- 168.13 169.38
- Cangjie
- RMVH
- Four-corner
- 6104.0