呱呱

gūgū / guāguā
interjection #41,559

Meanings

  1. 1 cry of a newborn baby

Examples

HSK 7-9
Chǎnfáng lǐ chuánlái yīng'ér gūgū de kūshēng.
A newborn's cries came from the delivery room.
HSK 7-9
Suízhe jǐ shēng gūgū de tíkū, yí ge xiǎo shēngmìng dànshēng le.
With a few cries, a new little life came into the world.

Tips

mistakes
This literary reading lives mainly in 呱呱坠地 "to come into the world crying, to be born". Many speakers say guāguā there too, but dictionaries keep gūgū for a baby's cry and guāguā for frogs and ducks.

Stroke Order

呱 guā