(ma) - (question particle, sentence-final) in Mandarin
maTraditional: 嘛
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Translation
(question particle, sentence-final)
Word origin
嘛 (ma) is a sentence-final particle written as a phono-semantic compound: the 口 (mouth) radical marks it as a speech particle, and 麻 (má) supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 口 (mouth, meaning) + 麻 (má, phonetic)
Stroke order
嘛
Examples
？
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.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 嘛.
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