Chinese Character 哑 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

哑 meaning[3] in English

(Onom.) Sound Of Cawing.

Sound Of Infant Learning To Talk.

Variant Of 呀[Ya1].

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are mouth (口) , and Asia (亚)

Its radical[1] is: (kou3) which means: Mouth, Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc), Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls, .kou3mouth

In cangjie it is written with RMTC

How to write 哑

To writeya3(onom.) sound … you should write a combination of kou3mouth , ya4Asia arranged in a shape:

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哑 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 哑 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of , looks as follow:

Pinyin:ya3 Shape:
Meaning[3]: (Onom.) Sound Of Cawing . Sound Of Infant Learning To Talk . Variant Of 呀[Ya1]

Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Pinyin:ya4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Asia . Asian . Taiwan Pr. [Ya3]

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 哑in English or Chinese