(hā) - ha (laughing sound) in Mandarin
hāTraditional: 哈
HSK 3
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Translation
ha (laughing sound)
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: the 口 'mouth' radical marks it as a sound made by the mouth, and 合 (he) supplies the sound. It writes the laughing or exhaling noise 'ha'.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 口 (mouth radical) + 合 (he, phonetic)
Stroke order
哈
Examples
，！
Ha ha, you are right!
，。
Ha, that is very funny.
，。
Ha, I got it.
，！
Ha, you are really impressive!
。
He laughed and said hahaha.
哈 (hā) means ha (laughing sound). It is used as an interjection in everyday Mandarin speech.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 哈.
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