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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
- (onom.) sound of cawing
- sound of infant learning to talk
- variant of 呀[ya1]
- mute; dumb; incapable of speech
- (of a voice) hoarse; husky
- (bound form) (of a bullet, bomb etc) dud

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- 8 12,515 12,831 7,560

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Mouth

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
哑巴 - - 11,017 23,398 16,093
- 8 12,515 12,831 7,560
哑剧 - - 21,923 68,973 46,323
沙哑 - - 25,882 24,685 18,087
聋哑人 - - 29,583 34,735 29,991
哑铃 - - 30,737 38,898 26,115
聋哑 6 - 31,300 30,162 44,574
哑谜 - - 32,688 - 113,548
装聋作哑 - - 33,978 63,809 46,540
嘶哑 - - 43,888 29,476 30,629
哑语 - - 56,706 85,502 74,558
哑然失笑 - - 81,022 46,700 70,187
吃哑巴亏 - - 87,311 98,949 81,803