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Meaning

Example sentence

你真高啊!

nǐ zhēn gāo a

How tall you are!

The character 啊

hangs on the end of a sentence and softens it — 好啊, 是啊 — turning a statement into something offered rather than announced. On its own it is surprise, ?, and its sound bends towards the syllable in front of it.

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