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suzhoufan
Date : 2009-09-22 / 11:09AM
What does it mean when chinese people say something like “ai-o”? I don’t know the actual spelling, but people say it all the time, maybe for expressing some emotion.
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| | Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 2009-09-22 / 12:57PM | | Hi suzhoufan,
“ai” is most likely used to express the emotion of surprise and questioning. While “O” is mostly used as “I understand” or “ok”
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| | Kevin yahoo.com 2009-09-22 / 11:33PM | | To : Benny the Mandarin Teacher
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Hi suzhoufan,
“ai” is most likely used to express the emotion of surprise and questioning. While “O” is mostly used as “I understand” or “ok”
Benny I believe you mean ㄟ嚄, i see it used alot when people are surprised. | |
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