讶 (yà): astounded
讶 (yà) is a Chinese character meaning “astounded.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 讠 (semantic) and 牙 (phonetic). It ranks #2114 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 讶 speech. Its radical form 讠 (speech) appears in many related characters such as 认 (rèn, to recognize, to admit), 记 (jì, to remember, to record), 识 (shí, to know, knowledge).
Definitions
- astounded
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 讶
Common Compounds
讶 appears in 3 compound words: 33 as the first character, 67 as the last, and 0 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 讶 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
他讶言谨慎，从不说没有根据的话。
tā yà yán jǐn shèn , cóng bù shuō méi yǒu gēn jù de huà .
He was careful with his words and never spoke without evidence.
中职》得知林哲瑄退休很惊讶 罗力以前辈身分给建议:不要哭
zhōng zhí dé zhī lín zhé 瑄 tuì xiū hěn jīng yà luó lì yǐ qián bèi shēn fēn gěi jiàn yì : bù yāo kū
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lín 奕 匡 xīn gē chéng 5 tái guàn jūn gē jīng yà 囝 囝 chāo ài zì jǐ zuò pǐn
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汤姆惊讶得没有反应。
Tāngmǔ jīngyà de méiyǒu fǎnyìng.
Tom was too surprised to react.
汤姆、玛丽、约翰和爱丽丝都显得有些惊讶。
Tāngmǔ, Mǎlì, Yuēhàn hé àilìsī dōu xiǎnde yǒuxiē jīngyà.
Tom, Mary, John and Alice all looked somewhat surprised.
“你怎么来了？”他惊讶地问我。
"nǐ zěnme lái le?" tā jīngyà de wèn wǒ.
"What are you doing here?" he asked me in surprise.
感到惊讶、感到惊奇就是明白的开始。
Gǎndào jīngyà, gǎndào jīngqí jiùshì míngbai de kāishǐ.
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
我听到这个消息很惊讶。
Wǒ tīng dào zhège xiāoxi hěn jīngyà.
I was very surprised to hear the news.
看你并不感到惊讶，你肯定已经知道了。
Kàn nǐ bìng bù gǎndào jīngyà, nǐ kěndìng yǐjīng zhīdào le.
You're not even fazed. You must have known all along!
你会很惊讶你在一周内能学到的东西。
Nǐ huì hěn jīngyà nǐ zài yī zhōu nèi néng xué dào de dōngxi.
You'd be surprised what you can learn in a week.
Character Family
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