啞
yǎ
dumb, mute; become hoarse
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 口
- HSK
- —
- Tone
- 3
Other readings: è
Simplified form: 哑
Stroke order
Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 哑, the simplified form of 啞. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.
Example sentences
她注视着一个不明飞行物，哑口无言。
Tā zhù shì zhe yī gè bù míng fēi xíng wù yǎ kǒu wú yán
She stared at a UFO in silence.
早上起来，嗓子变得很沙哑，我想是不是感冒了。
Zǎo shang qǐ lai sǎng zi biàn de hěn shā yǎ wǒ xiǎng shì bù shì gǎn mào le
I've had a scratchy throat since this morning. I wonder if I've caught a cold.
汤姆是聋哑人。
Tāng mǔ shì lóng yǎ rén
Tom is deaf and mute.
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words containing 哑
- 聋哑lóng yǎ 2–3 deaf and dumb
- 哑yǎ 3mute; dumb; incapable of speech; (of a voice) hoarse; husky; (of a bullet, bomb etc) dud
- 哑yā 1(onom.) sound of cawing; sound of infant learning to talk; variant of 呀