嗎 (má)
used in 'morphine' or colloquial 'what'
How 嗎 is written
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- Traditional
- 嗎
- Simplified
- 吗
嗎 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- mǎ
- see 嗎啡|吗啡, morphine
- ma
- (question tag)
Common words using 嗎
- 嗎哪 mǎnǎ
- manna (Israelite food)
- 嗎啡 mǎfēi
- morphine
- 幹嗎 gànmá
- see 幹嘛|干嘛[gan4 ma2]
嗎 in a sentence
你在幹嗎？
Nǐ zài gànmá?
“What are you doing?”
How common is 嗎?
嗎 is the 453rd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 73.7% of all running text.
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