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哇

HSK 6#762 by frequencyradical 口

wā["y","o"]

Wow!; sound of a child's crying; sound of vomiting

wa

replaces 啊[a5] when following the vowel "u" or "ao"

Examples

哇！

Wow!

哇，好冷！

Wow, so cold!

Part of the HSK 6 word list.

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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.