哇
wa
2 readings · tap one to hear it
Wow!; sound of a child's crying; sound of vomiting
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 口 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 哇
- Common rank
- #2,404
- Unicode
- U+54C7
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 哇
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 松巴哇岛 | Sumbawa, Indonesian island east of Java | |
| 哇沙比 | wasabi (loanword) (Tw) | |
| 哇沙米 | wasabi (loanword) (Tw) | |
| 松巴哇 | Sumbawa, Indonesian island east of Java | |
| 卡哇伊 | cute; adorable; charming (loanword from Japanese) | |
| 卡哇依 | variant of 卡哇伊[ka3 wa1 yi1] | |
| 爪哇八哥 | (bird species of China) Javan myna (Acridotheres javanicus) | |
| 好哇 | hurray!; hurrah!; yippee! | |
| 爪哇国 | ancient state located in present-day Java 爪哇[Zhao3 wa1]; (fig.) somewhere remote, inaccess… | |
| 中爪哇 | Central Java, province of Indonesia | |
| 西爪哇 | West Java, province of Indonesia | |
| 爪哇岛 | Java (island of Indonesia) | |
| 哇塞 | (slang) wow!; also pr. [wa1sei1] | |
| 爪哇池鹭 | (bird species of China) Javan pond heron (Ardeola speciosa) | |
| 爪哇禾雀 | (bird species of China) Java sparrow (Lonchura oryzivora) | |
| 哇靠 | (Tw) whoa!; holy crap! jeez! (from Taiwanese 我哭, Tai-lo pr. [goá khàu], "I cry!") | |
| 爪哇 | Java (island of Indonesia) | |
| 哇哇 | sound of crying | |
| 哇噻 | variant of 哇塞[wa1 sai1] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 圭 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 圭 sound part | jade tablet | |
| 挂 | to suspend, to put up, to hang; suspense | |
| 鞋 | shoes, footwear in general | |
| 街 | street, road, thoroughfare | |
| 佳 | good, auspicious; beautiful; delightful | |
| 桂 | cassia, cinnamon | |
| 硅 | silicon | |
| 闺 | women's quarters; lady's apartment | |
| 蛙 | frog | |
| 奎 | a man's stride; a constellation | |
| 卦 | divination, fortune-telling | |
| 洼 | pit, hollow, depression; swamp | |
| 畦 | sections in a vegetable farm | |
| 眭 | a piercing gaze; the evil eye | |
| 筀 | bamboo (archaic) | |
| 絓 | to hinder, to obstruct | |
| 鲑 | salmon; Spheroides vermicularis | |
| 恚 | anger, rage | |
| 诖 | error, mistake; to deceive, to mislead |