"哇" meaning in Chinese

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Character

IPA: /wä⁵⁵/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /wä/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /waː⁵⁵/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /u̯a²⁴/ [Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Sinological-IPA, Sixian], /ua⁴⁴/ [Hokkien, Xiamen, Zhangzhou], /ua³³/ [Hokkien, Quanzhou], /wä⁵⁵/, /wä/, /waː⁵⁵/, /u̯a²⁴/, /ua⁴⁴/, /ua³³/ Chinese transliterations: wā [Mandarin, Pinyin], wa [Mandarin, Pinyin], wa¹ [Mandarin, Pinyin], wa⁵/wa⁰ [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄨㄚ [Mandarin, bopomofo], ˙ㄨㄚ [Mandarin, bopomofo], waa¹ [Cantonese, Jyutping], ôa [Hakka, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], oa, wā [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], wa [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], wa¹ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], wā [Mandarin, Yale], ua [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], ва [Mandarin, Palladius], va [Mandarin, Palladius], wa [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], wå [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], wa⁵ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], wa [Mandarin, Yale], .ua [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], wā [Cantonese, Yale], waa¹ [Cantonese, Pinyin], wa¹ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], ôa [Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], ua´ [Hakka, Hakka-Romanization-System, Meinong, Miaoli, Sixian], ua¹ [Hagfa-Pinyim, Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Sixian], oa [Hokkien, POJ], ua [Hokkien, Tai-lo], oaf [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], 'ea [Middle-Chinese], 'wae [Middle-Chinese], /*qreː/ [Old-Chinese, Zhengzhang], /*qʷraː/ [Old-Chinese, Zhengzhang]
Etymology: Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *qreː, *qʷraː) : semantic 口 + phonetic 圭 (OC *kʷeː). Etymology templates: {{m|zh|形聲|tr=-}} 形聲/形声, {{categorize|zh|Han phono-semantic compounds}}, {{liushu|psc|adj=|nocap=|pron=OC *qreː, *qʷraː}} Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *qreː, *qʷraː), {{m|zh|口//|||tr=-}} 口, {{m|zh|圭//|||tr=<span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted #000; cursor:help" title="Old Chinese">OC *kʷeː</span>}} 圭 (OC *kʷeː), {{Han compound|口|圭|c1=s|c2=p|ls=psc}} Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *qreː, *qʷraː) : semantic 口 + phonetic 圭 (OC *kʷeː) Head templates: {{head|zh|hanzi}} 哇
  1. Interjection indicating surprise or amazement: wow!, gee Synonyms (wow): [Cantonese], [Cantonese]
    Sense id: en-哇-zh-character-BKOegpIK Disambiguation of 'wow': 100 0 0 0 0
  2. (onomatopoeia) sound of crying Tags: onomatopoeic
    Sense id: en-哇-zh-character-doZ9jdxB Categories (other): Chinese onomatopoeias
  3. (onomatopoeia) sound of vomiting Tags: onomatopoeic
    Sense id: en-哇-zh-character-FtSs2E5D Categories (other): Chinese onomatopoeias
  4. (Classical) to vomit Tags: Classical
    Sense id: en-哇-zh-character-FkM4Uu0G Categories (other): Classical Chinese, Elementary Mandarin Disambiguation of Elementary Mandarin: 16 5 3 47 29
  5. Sentence-final particle: Equivalent of 啊 (a). Only used after words ending in -u, -ao.
    Sense id: en-哇-zh-character-Clxnha12 Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Chinese particles, Chinese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 22 4 4 26 44 Disambiguation of Chinese particles: 15 3 3 26 53 Disambiguation of Chinese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 15 4 4 34 43
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: 啊 after -ng (ā) [particle, sentence-final], ci [particle, sentence-final], zi [particle, sentence-final], si [particle, sentence-final], chi [particle, sentence-final], zhi [particle, sentence-final], shi [particle, sentence-final], 呀 after -a (yā) [particle, sentence-final], -o [particle, sentence-final], -e [particle, sentence-final], -i [particle, sentence-final], -ü [particle, sentence-final], 哪 after -n (nǎ) [particle, sentence-final] Derived forms: 哇哇, 哇哇叫, 哇老誒 (wà láo ei), 哇老诶 (wà láo ei), 哇賽, 哇赛, 淫哇, 熱爪哇 (rèzhǎowā), 热爪哇 (rèzhǎowā), 爪哇 (zhǎowā), 爪哇人 (zhǎowārén), 爪哇國 (Zhǎowāguó), 爪哇国 (Zhǎowāguó), 爪哇島, 爪哇岛, 爪哇族

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "哇哇"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "哇哇叫"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "wà láo ei",
      "word": "哇老誒"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "wà láo ei",
      "word": "哇老诶"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "哇賽"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "哇赛"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "淫哇"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "rèzhǎowā",
      "word": "熱爪哇"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "rèzhǎowā",
      "word": "热爪哇"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "zhǎowā",
      "word": "爪哇"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "zhǎowārén",
      "word": "爪哇人"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "Zhǎowāguó",
      "word": "爪哇國"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "Zhǎowāguó",
      "word": "爪哇国"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "爪哇島"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "爪哇岛"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "爪哇族"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "形聲",
        "tr": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "形聲/形声",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "Han phono-semantic compounds"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "categorize"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "psc",
        "adj": "",
        "nocap": "",
        "pron": "OC *qreː, *qʷraː"
      },
      "expansion": "Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *qreː, *qʷraː)",
      "name": "liushu"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "口//",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "tr": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "口",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "圭//",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "tr": "<span style=\"border-bottom: 1px dotted #000; cursor:help\" title=\"Old Chinese\">OC *kʷeː</span>"
      },
      "expansion": "圭 (OC *kʷeː)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "口",
        "2": "圭",
        "c1": "s",
        "c2": "p",
        "ls": "psc"
      },
      "expansion": "Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *qreː, *qʷraː) : semantic 口 + phonetic 圭 (OC *kʷeː)",
      "name": "Han compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *qreː, *qʷraː) : semantic 口 + phonetic 圭 (OC *kʷeː).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "hanzi"
      },
      "expansion": "哇",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Wow! You look terrific!",
          "ref": "哇!你的樣子太酷了! [MSC, trad.]",
          "text": "哇!你的样子太酷了! [MSC, simp.]\nWā! Nǐ de yàngzi tài kù le! [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Interjection indicating surprise or amazement: wow!, gee"
      ],
      "id": "en-哇-zh-character-BKOegpIK",
      "links": [
        [
          "wow",
          "wow"
        ],
        [
          "gee",
          "gee"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0",
          "sense": "wow",
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese"
          ],
          "word": "嘩"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0",
          "sense": "wow",
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese"
          ],
          "word": "哗"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese onomatopoeias",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sound of crying"
      ],
      "id": "en-哇-zh-character-doZ9jdxB",
      "links": [
        [
          "onomatopoeia",
          "onomatopoeia"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(onomatopoeia) sound of crying"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "onomatopoeic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese onomatopoeias",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sound of vomiting"
      ],
      "id": "en-哇-zh-character-FtSs2E5D",
      "links": [
        [
          "onomatopoeia",
          "onomatopoeia"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(onomatopoeia) sound of vomiting"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "onomatopoeic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Classical Chinese",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 5 3 47 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Elementary Mandarin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Just then his brother came into the house, and said, \"It is the flesh of that cackling thing,\" upon which he went out and vomited it.",
          "ref": "其兄自外至,曰:『是鶃鶃之肉也。』出而哇之。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
          "text": "其兄自外至,曰:『是𱊄𱊄之肉也。』出而哇之。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: Mencius, c. 4ᵗʰ century BCE\nQí xiōng zì wài zhì, yuē: ‘Shì yìyì zhī ròu yě.’ Chū ér wā zhī. [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to vomit"
      ],
      "id": "en-哇-zh-character-FkM4Uu0G",
      "links": [
        [
          "vomit",
          "vomit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Classical) to vomit"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "22 4 4 26 44",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 3 3 26 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese particles",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 4 4 34 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "好哇! ― Hǎo wa! ― hurray!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Sentence-final particle: Equivalent of 啊 (a). Only used after words ending in -u, -ao."
      ],
      "id": "en-哇-zh-character-Clxnha12",
      "links": [
        [
          "啊",
          "啊#Chinese"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wā"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wa"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wa¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wa⁵/wa⁰"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄨㄚ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "˙ㄨㄚ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "waa¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ôa"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "oa"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wā"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wa"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wa¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wā"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ua"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ва"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "va"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/wä⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wa"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wå"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wa⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wa"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": ".ua"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/wä/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wā"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "waa¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wa¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/waː⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ôa"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ua´"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ua¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/u̯a²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "oa"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ua"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "oaf"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ua⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ua³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "'ea"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "'wae"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Old-Chinese",
        "Zhengzhang"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*qreː/"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Old-Chinese",
        "Zhengzhang"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*qʷraː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/wä⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/wä/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/waː⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/u̯a²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ua⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ua³³/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/*qreː/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/*qʷraː/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "ā",
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "啊 after -ng"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "ci"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "zi"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "si"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "chi"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "zhi"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "shi"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "yā",
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "呀 after -a"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "-o"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "-e"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "-i"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "-ü"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "nǎ",
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "哪 after -n"
    }
  ],
  "word": "哇"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Chinese Han characters",
    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese interjections",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese nouns",
    "Chinese particles",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Chinese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
    "Elementary Mandarin",
    "Middle Chinese lemmas",
    "Old Chinese lemmas"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "哇哇"
    },
    {
      "word": "哇哇叫"
    },
    {
      "roman": "wà láo ei",
      "word": "哇老誒"
    },
    {
      "roman": "wà láo ei",
      "word": "哇老诶"
    },
    {
      "word": "哇賽"
    },
    {
      "word": "哇赛"
    },
    {
      "word": "淫哇"
    },
    {
      "roman": "rèzhǎowā",
      "word": "熱爪哇"
    },
    {
      "roman": "rèzhǎowā",
      "word": "热爪哇"
    },
    {
      "roman": "zhǎowā",
      "word": "爪哇"
    },
    {
      "roman": "zhǎowārén",
      "word": "爪哇人"
    },
    {
      "roman": "Zhǎowāguó",
      "word": "爪哇國"
    },
    {
      "roman": "Zhǎowāguó",
      "word": "爪哇国"
    },
    {
      "word": "爪哇島"
    },
    {
      "word": "爪哇岛"
    },
    {
      "word": "爪哇族"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "形聲",
        "tr": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "形聲/形声",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "Han phono-semantic compounds"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "categorize"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "psc",
        "adj": "",
        "nocap": "",
        "pron": "OC *qreː, *qʷraː"
      },
      "expansion": "Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *qreː, *qʷraː)",
      "name": "liushu"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "口//",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "tr": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "口",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "圭//",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "tr": "<span style=\"border-bottom: 1px dotted #000; cursor:help\" title=\"Old Chinese\">OC *kʷeː</span>"
      },
      "expansion": "圭 (OC *kʷeː)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "口",
        "2": "圭",
        "c1": "s",
        "c2": "p",
        "ls": "psc"
      },
      "expansion": "Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *qreː, *qʷraː) : semantic 口 + phonetic 圭 (OC *kʷeː)",
      "name": "Han compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *qreː, *qʷraː) : semantic 口 + phonetic 圭 (OC *kʷeː).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "hanzi"
      },
      "expansion": "哇",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Mandarin terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Wow! You look terrific!",
          "ref": "哇!你的樣子太酷了! [MSC, trad.]",
          "text": "哇!你的样子太酷了! [MSC, simp.]\nWā! Nǐ de yàngzi tài kù le! [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Interjection indicating surprise or amazement: wow!, gee"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wow",
          "wow"
        ],
        [
          "gee",
          "gee"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Chinese onomatopoeias"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sound of crying"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "onomatopoeia",
          "onomatopoeia"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(onomatopoeia) sound of crying"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "onomatopoeic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Chinese onomatopoeias"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sound of vomiting"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "onomatopoeia",
          "onomatopoeia"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(onomatopoeia) sound of vomiting"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "onomatopoeic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Classical Chinese",
        "Literary Chinese terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Just then his brother came into the house, and said, \"It is the flesh of that cackling thing,\" upon which he went out and vomited it.",
          "ref": "其兄自外至,曰:『是鶃鶃之肉也。』出而哇之。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
          "text": "其兄自外至,曰:『是𱊄𱊄之肉也。』出而哇之。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: Mencius, c. 4ᵗʰ century BCE\nQí xiōng zì wài zhì, yuē: ‘Shì yìyì zhī ròu yě.’ Chū ér wā zhī. [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to vomit"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "vomit",
          "vomit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Classical) to vomit"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Mandarin terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "好哇! ― Hǎo wa! ― hurray!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Sentence-final particle: Equivalent of 啊 (a). Only used after words ending in -u, -ao."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "啊",
          "啊#Chinese"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wā"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wa"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wa¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wa⁵/wa⁰"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄨㄚ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "˙ㄨㄚ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "waa¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ôa"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "oa"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wā"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wa"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wa¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wā"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ua"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ва"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "va"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/wä⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wa"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wå"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wa⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wa"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": ".ua"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/wä/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wā"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "waa¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wa¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/waː⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ôa"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ua´"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ua¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/u̯a²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "oa"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ua"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "oaf"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ua⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ua³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "'ea"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "'wae"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Old-Chinese",
        "Zhengzhang"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*qreː/"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Old-Chinese",
        "Zhengzhang"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*qʷraː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/wä⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/wä/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/waː⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/u̯a²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ua⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ua³³/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/*qreː/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/*qʷraː/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "wow",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ],
      "word": "嘩"
    },
    {
      "sense": "wow",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ],
      "word": "哗"
    },
    {
      "roman": "ā",
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "啊 after -ng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "ci"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "zi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "si"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "chi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "zhi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "shi"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yā",
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "呀 after -a"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "-o"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "-e"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "-i"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "-ü"
    },
    {
      "roman": "nǎ",
      "tags": [
        "particle",
        "sentence-final"
      ],
      "word": "哪 after -n"
    }
  ],
  "word": "哇"
}
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  "called_from": "pronunciations/296/20230324",
  "msg": "Zh-pron header not found in zh_pron_tags or tags: 'Southern Min'",
  "path": [
    "哇"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "哇",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "pronunciations/296/20230324",
  "msg": "Zh-pron header not found in zh_pron_tags or tags: '(Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺'",
  "path": [
    "哇"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "哇",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "pronunciations/296/20230324",
  "msg": "Zh-pron header not found in zh_pron_tags or tags: 'Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ)'",
  "path": [
    "哇"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "哇",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "pronunciations/296/20230324",
  "msg": "Zh-pron header not found in zh_pron_tags or tags: '(Standard Chinese)⁺'",
  "path": [
    "哇"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "哇",
  "trace": ""
}

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