吖

yā / ā
interjection

Meanings

  1. 1 to shout; to cry out (archaic)

Examples

HSK 6
Zhòngrén yā tiān hǎn dì.
The crowd shouted to high heaven.
HSK 7-9
Bù suǒ nǐ méiláiyóu zhèbān jiào tiān yā dì.
There is no need for you to cry out to heaven and earth like this for no reason.

Tips

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Read as 吖 the character means 'to shout / cry out', an archaic usage you'll only see in classical or dialect texts. Modern Chinese uses 喊 or 叫 instead.

Components

radical
口 kǒu
mouth
The mouth radical 口 appears because the character was coined as a sound-transliteration glyph; the mouth marks it as a phonetic loan rather than a meaning-bearing word.
phonetic
丫 yā
fork; branch
丫 on the right supplies the rough sound; it carries no meaning here, serving only as the phonetic shell.

Stroke Order

吖 yā