嗯

HSK 4#1390 by frequencyradical 口

en["e"]

interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement

èn["e"]

(nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?

ēn["e"]

(a groaning sound)

Examples

嗯？

Hm?

嗯哪。

Yep.

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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.