吗
3 readings · tap one to hear it
(question particle for "yes-no" questions)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 口 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 嗎
- Common rank
- #3,122
- Unicode
- U+5417
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 吗
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不香吗 | (slang) would be better (abbr. for 這錢買排骨它不香嗎|这钱买排骨它不香吗[zhe4 qian2 mai3 pai2 gu3 ta1 bu4 xi… | |
| 不是吗 | isn't that so? | |
| 干吗 | variant of 幹嘛|干嘛[gan4 ma2] | |
| 约吗 | (neologism, attested by 2014) (slang) Are you interested? (originally an invitation for ca… | |
| 吗啡 | morphine (loanword) | |
| 吗哪 | manna (Israelite food) | |
| 吗喽 | (slang) monkey (often used humorously or self-deprecatingly by overworked laborers) | |
| 吗啉 | morpholine (chemistry) (loanword) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 马 — compare how they read.