哇啦

wālā
interjection #31,921

Meanings

  1. 1 (onomatopoeia) hubbub of voices, jabbering
  2. 2 blah blah
  3. 3 loud chattering noise

Examples

Tāmen jīlǐwālā de shuō ge bù tíng.
They jabbered on without stopping.
Wàimiàn wālāwālā de, chǎo de wǒ shuì bu zháo.
There's such a racket of voices outside that I can't sleep.

Tips

usage
Onomatopoeic, almost always reduplicated as 哇啦哇啦 or appearing in 哇啦 (jīlǐwālā) — the standard Chinese expression for the sound of unintelligible foreign chatter or excited talking. Often slightly dismissive ('they were going on and on').

Stroke Order

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