Chinese Character 啊 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

啊 meaning[3] in English

Interjection Of Surprise.

Ah!.

Oh!.

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 abbr. for Afghanistan … (阿)

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 RNLR

How to write 啊

To writea5interjection of … you should write a combination of kou3mouth , a1abbr. for … arranged in a shape:

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啊 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

Pinyin:a5 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Interjection Of Surprise . Ah! . Oh!

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

Pinyin:a1 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Abbr. For Afghanistan 阿富汗[A1 Fu4 Han4]

Pinyin:fu4 Shape:

Pinyin:ke3 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Can . May . Able To . To Approve . To Permit . To Suit . (Particle Used For Emphasis) Certainly . Very

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

Pinyin:ding1 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Surname Ding

Pinyin:yi1
Meaning[3]: One . 1 . Single . A (Article) . As Soon As . Entire . Whole . All . Throughout . 'One' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 1) . Also Pr. [Yao1] For Greater Clarity When Spelling Out Numbers Digit By Digit

Pinyin:jue2
Meaning[3]: 'Vertical Stroke With Hook' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 6) . See Also 豎鉤|竖钩[Shu4 Gou1]

Notes

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

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 啊in English or Chinese