> In Chinese there's a word I don't know how to write but sounds something like "uh" that means more "I acknowledge" without implying agreement. Actually, I don

> In Chinese there's a word I don't know how to write but sounds something like "uh" that means more "I acknowledge" without implying agreement. Actually, I don't know if it's a word, but I hear it a lot. > Whether it exists in Chinese or not, I wish English had a word more neutral than OK or uh-huh. "I acknowledge what you said" is too clunky. Not exactly Chinese, but colloquial Singapore English (Singlish) has a word "orh" [1] which sounds like what you might be looking for. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlish_vocabulary#O https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlish_vocabulary#O