呀

HSK 5#432 by frequencyradical 口

ya["y"]

(particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt)

yā

ah (used to express surprise); (onom.) creaking

Examples

说呀！

Speak!

救命呀！

Help me!

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.