哑 啞
哑啞 in English
- mute / dumb / incapable of speech / (of a voice) hoarse / husky / (bound form) (of a bullet, bomb etc) dud
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 啞, the traditional character: 哑 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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她又盲又聋又哑。
She was blind, deaf, and dumb.
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她注视着一个不明飞行物，哑口无言。
She stared at a UFO in silence.
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早上起来，嗓子变得很沙哑，我想是不是感冒了。
I've had a scratchy throat since this morning. I wonder if I've caught a cold.
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汤姆是聋哑人。
Tom is deaf and mute.