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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