嘛 - Mandarin word #257

嘛

Traditional: 嘛

HSK 1

#257 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

(question particle, sentence-final)

Stroke order

嘛

？

How are you?

？

Has he come?

？

Do you know?

，。

Do not worry, it is fine.

，。

Go on and speak, I am listening.

嘛 (ma) means (question particle, sentence-final). It is used as a particle in everyday Mandarin speech.

啊

ah, oh (exclamatory particle)

吧

suggestion or softening particle (let's, shall we, I suppose)

啦

(sentence-final particle for exclamation)

呢

and what about...? (question particle)

呀

ah, oh (softening particle)

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 嘛.

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

This word is part of lesson 6.