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麼

me, má, ma, mó

interrogative particle

Phonosemantic compound. 幺 represents the meaning and 麻 represents the sound.

Components
幺 meaning component

幺  Meaning component

me, yāo

  

tiny

麻 sound component

麻  Sound component

má

  

hemp

Evolution

麼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
麼 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

么 (麼) 

me

interrogative final particle; insignificant, small, tiny; suffix, used to form interrogative 什麼|什么[shén​me], what?, indefinite 這麼|这么[zhè​me] thus, etc

么 (麼) 

má

exclamatory final particle

麽 (麼) 

mó

tiny; insignificant

Most common words with 麼
Freq.
Word
Meaning

什么

what?

怎么

how?

这么

so much

那么

like that

为什么

why?

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 99.7437% of movies

11th most common character in movies

63rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

么

Unicode

U+9EBC

Shuowen

“麼，細也，从幺麻聲。”


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