么
móTraditional: 麼
#5046 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
traditional/variant form of 么 (particle in question words like 什么, 怎么)
Stroke order
么
Examples
？
What did you say?
？
What's the matter with you?
，。
Well then, let's go now.
？
What do you want to do?
？
How come you're back so late?
麼 (mó) is the traditional-script form of the question particle 么. It appears in Taiwanese and Hong Kong writing inside 什麼 (what), 怎麼 (how), and 那麼 (then, in that case), where it is normally read with a neutral tone.
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Appears in 15 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 么.
什么shén mewhat什么shénmewhat什么时候shénme shíhouwhen为什么wèishénmewhy怎么zěnmehow怎么zěn mehow; why (in rhetorical questions)为什么wèi shén mewhy, for what reason这么zhè meso, this much, like this那么nà meso, then, in that case怎么样zěn me yànghow, what do you think, how about干什么gàn shén mewhat are (you/they) doing, why do that没什么méi shén meit's nothing, never mind, no big deal怎么办zěn me bànwhat to do, what should be done怎么回事zěn me huí shìwhat's going on, what's the matter这么zhè móso, this much, like this, to this degree
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