上帝啊

Shàngdìa

interjection

Meanings

1 oh God!
2 oh Lord!

Characters

emperor / deity

exclamatory particle

Examples

HSK 1

上帝啊，请帮帮我吧。

Shàngdì'a, qǐng bāngbāng wǒ ba.

Oh God, please help me.

HSK 3

上帝啊，这一切都是真的吗？

Shàngdì'a, zhè yīqiè dōu shì zhēnde ma?

Oh Lord, is all this really true?

Tips

culture

Unlike 天啊, this one directly invokes 上帝 - the Christian God (or in classical use, the Shang-dynasty high deity). More common among Chinese Christians and in translated Western dialogue than in everyday secular speech, where 天啊 / 我的天 are the default.

Stroke Order

上 shàng

帝 dì

啊 a