哑 Traditional (Taiwan): 啞 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. yā ㄧㄚ sound of cawing onom. sound of infant learning to talk yǎ ㄧㄚˇ mute dumb incapable of speech hoarse husky of a voice (of a bullet, bomb etc) dud bound form Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT