HSK 5 · Function Words

哈 hā “ha! (laughter)” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 哈 means

  1. ha! (laughter)
  2. (interj.) ha!
  3. (onom. for laughter)
  4. (bound form) husky (dog) (abbr. for 哈士奇)

How to say 哈

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale哈hā1st tone, high and level

哈 in a sentence

  1. 他们都哈哈大笑起来。

    Tāmen dōu hāhā dàxiào qǐlai.

    They all burst out laughing.

    Sentence #335934 from Tatoeba

  2. 他的话把大家惹得哈哈大笑。

    Tā de huà bǎ dàjiā rě de hāhā dàxiào.

    What he said had everyone roaring with laughter.

    Sentence #715574 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 哈 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 哈 (hā) with each of its parts in a different colour
哈hāha!
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 合to combine · gěSound part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 合 (gě) hints at the sound. Compare it with hā.

How to write 哈

哈 9 strokes

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哈 (hā) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 哈 (hā). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 哈

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各自gèzì · each根gēn · root怪不得guàibude · no wonder!果然guǒrán · really何必hébì · there is no need何况hékuàng · let alone或许huòxǔ · perhaps忽然hūrán · suddenly

FAQs

哈 (hā) means “ha! (laughter)” or “(interj.) ha!”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it hā: hā with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 哈 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ha with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 哈 from the suggestions. Typing ha into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
哈 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.