(dà má) - cannabis, marijuana, hemp in Mandarin
dàmáTraditional: 大麻
Translation
cannabis, marijuana, hemp
Word origin
A compound of 大 (dà, big) and 麻 (má, hemp), the ordinary name for the hemp plant long before the drug sense attached to it.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 大 (dà, big) + 麻 (má, hemp)
Stroke order
大
麻
Examples
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In many countries cannabis is still illegal.
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The police found cannabis in his car.
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This kind of rope is made from hemp.
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The doctor said cannabis helps his condition a little.
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He says he has never smoked cannabis.
大麻 (dàmá) covers both halves of what English splits between hemp and cannabis. The rope, the cloth and the drug are all 大麻, and only the context tells you which one is meant.
In news reports and police stories it means the drug, and it sits in the same sentences as 毒品 and 违法. In a shop selling bags or rope it simply means the fibre.
The trap is reaching for it as a translation of weed in a casual chat. 大麻 is the plain clinical term, closer to cannabis than to any slang, and Chinese slang for the drug varies far too much by place to guess at.
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