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嘛
嘛
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Translingual
Han character
嘛 (radical 30 口+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 口戈木木 (RIDD) or 口戈十金 (RIJC), four-corner 60094, composition ⿰口麻)
- final exclamatory particle
References
- KangXi: not present, would follow page 206, character 20
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4230
- Dae Jaweon: page 429, character 19
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 678, character 7
- Unihan data for U+561B
Chinese
Etymology 1
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simp. and trad. |
嘛 | |
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Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄚ˙
- Wade-Giles: ma5
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .mha
- IPA (key): /ma̠/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄚˊ
- Wade-Giles: ma2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ma
- IPA (key): /ma̠³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: maa3
- Yale: ma
- Cantonese Pinyin: maa3
- IPA (key): /mɑː³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
Definitions
嘛
- (stresses the preceding is obvious) Of course!
- signals a pause in a sentence, similar to the function of a comma
Compounds
Etymology 2
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simp. and trad. |
嘛 | |
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Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄚ˙
- Wade-Giles: ma5
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .mha
- IPA (key): /ma̠/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: maa4
- Yale: màh
- Cantonese Pinyin: maa4
- IPA (key): /mɑː²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
Definitions
嘛
- Only used in 喇嘛 (lǎma).
Compounds
Etymology 3
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simp. and trad. |
嘛 | |
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Pronunciation
Definitions
嘛
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 也 (“also, too”) | ||
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| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | 亦 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 也 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 也 |
| Taiwan | 也 | |
| Jinan | 也 | |
| Xi'an | 也 | |
| Wuhan | 也 | |
| Chengdu | 也 | |
| Yangzhou | 也 | |
| Hefei | 也 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 都、亦 |
| Hong Kong | 都、亦 | |
| Taishan | 亦 | |
| Yangjiang | 也 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 也 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 也 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 乜 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 乜、也 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 乜 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 乜 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 乜 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 嘛 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 也 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 也 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 也 |
| Min Nan | Quanzhou | 也、嘛 |
| Xiamen | 也、嘛 | |
| Zhangzhou | 也、嘛 | |
| Taipei | 也、嘛 | |
| Chaozhou | 也 | |
| Wu | Suzhou | 也 |
| Wenzhou | 也 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 也 |
| Shuangfeng | 也 | |
References
- (Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)
- “Entry #10417”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
Japanese
Kanji
嘛
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
嘛 • (ma) (hangeul 마, revised ma, McCune-Reischauer ma, Yale ma)
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Vietnamese
Han character
嘛 (ma)
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