(onom.) sound of cawing / sound of infant learning to talk / variant of 呀[ya1]
dumb / mute / hoarse / husky / unexploded (of artillery shell etc)

= + : Maud Younger (y) is having the worst lunch of her life in the ashram (a3). It consists of a rotten mandarin (口) and sour mapo doufu (亚). After finishing her lunch she is so disgusted that she turns mute (哑) for several days.
mute; dumb; incapable of speech / (of a voice) hoarse; husky / (of a bullet, bomb etc) dud

哑 character breakdown

Asia / Asian / Taiwan pr. [Ya3]

= + : What is Asia famous for? Many people will say for its food. Let's say that 亚 is for 麻婆豆腐. Maud Younger is eating a plate of Mapo Doufu in the ashram's bathroom, when a bullfrog steals the plate by snatching it away with his tongue. His punishment follows at once by Maud Younger beating him over the head with a flute.
second / next to / inferior / sub- / Taiwan pr. [ya3]

= + : What is Asia famous for? Many people will say for its food. Let's say that 亚 is for 麻婆豆腐. Maud Younger is eating a plate of Mapo Doufu in the ashram's bathroom, when a bullfrog steals the plate by snatching it away with his tongue. His punishment follows at once by Maud Younger beating him over the head with a flute.
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).

Characters with 哑 as component

哑 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 哑

to mime / a dumb show
dumbbell (weight)
puzzle / mystery
sign language
to be forced to suffer in silence / unable to speak of one's bitter suffering
to laugh involuntarily / Taiwan pr. [e4 ran2 shi1 xiao4]
no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom) / also written 啞巴吃黃連|哑巴吃黄连 / (often precedes 有苦說不出|有苦说不出[you3 ku3 shuo1 bu5 chu1])
no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom) / also written 啞巴吃黃蓮|哑巴吃黄莲 / (often precedes 有苦說不出|有苦说不出[you3 ku3 shuo1 bu5 chu1])
to be forced to suffer in silence (idiom) / unable to speak of one's bitter suffering / sometimes written 啞子吃黃連,有苦說不出|哑子吃黄连,有苦说不出
pent-up unspoken grievances / suffering not willingly or possibly spoken of
(dialect) a mute
dumbstruck and unable to reply (idiom); left speechless / at a loss for words
as if dumb / speechless
matte / non-glossy
blind spot / dead spot
drum practice pad (music) / a practice drum (music)
dumbstruck and unable to reply (idiom) / left speechless; at a loss for words
mute person / dumb person / (more commonly called 啞巴|哑巴[ya3 ba5])

Sentences with 哑

nǐ
bù
shì
gè
yǎ
ba
ma