啊 · a
exclamatory particle
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
exclamatory particle
- Mandarin
- a
- 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 啊 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
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.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 아
- 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+554A
- Radical
- 口 · 30
- Strokes
- 10 · Unihan
- Residual
- 8
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
10 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 啊
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- 'a · 烏何 反切 · #738
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 6046 · 'a = 果開一平歌影
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
- a
- kCantonese
- aa1
- kDefinition
- exclamatory particle
- kTotalStrokes
- 10
- kRSUnicode
- 30.8
- kGradeLevel
- 3
- kTGH
- 2013:1915
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- è,ā,á,ǎ,à,a 10634.180
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- ā 0002.010 · á 0002.050 · ǎ 0002.060 · à 0002.070 · a 0002.080
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- ā 001.030 · á 001.060 · ǎ 001.070 · à 001.080 · a 001.090
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- a(1102) ā(404)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- ā粵aa1 á粵aa2 ǎ粵aa2 à粵aa3 a粵aa3