Chinese symbol for “yawn”
哈欠
hā qian
yawn
The closest CC-CEDICT match for yawn is 哈欠 (hā qian), defined as: yawn.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “yawn”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 打哈欠 | dǎ hā qian | to yawn |
| 呵欠 | hē qiàn | yawn |
| 打呵欠 | dǎ hē qiàn | to yawn |
| 欠 | qiàn | to owe; to lack |
| 呿 | qū | to yawn |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 哈欠.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 哈哈 | hā hā | (onom.) laughing out loud |
| 哈拉 | hā lā | to chat idly (Tw) |
| 哈尼 | hā ní | honey (term of endearment) (loanword) |
| 哈哈大笑 | hā hā dà xiào | to laugh heartily; to burst into loud laughter |
| 嘻哈 | xī hā | hip-hop (music genre) (loanword) |
| 哈达 (哈達) | hǎ dá | khata (Tibetan or Mongolian ceremonial scarf) |
| 欠缺 | qiàn quē | to be deficient in; lapse |
| 拖欠 | tuō qiàn | in arrears; behind in payments |
See also: Japanese symbol for “yawn”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.