麼
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Han character
麼 (Kangxi radical 200, 麻+3, 14 strokes, cangjie input 戈金女戈 (ICVI) or 戈木女戈 (IDVI), four-corner 00232, composition ⿸麻幺)
Derived characters
Related characters
- 麽 (Variant traditional form of 麼)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1515, character 5
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47892
- Dae Jaweon: page 2045, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4724, character 3
- Unihan data for U+9EBC
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Glyph origin
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *maːlʔ) : phonetic 麻 (OC *mraːl) + semantic 幺 (“small, tiny”).
Etymology 1
From 物 (MC mjut, “thing”), from 什物 (MC dzyip mjut, “miscellaneous items”) > 什麼／什么 (shénme) (Norman, 1988; Zhang, 1982).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ˙ㄇㄜ
- Tongyong Pinyin: me̊
- Wade–Giles: mê5
- Yale: me
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .me
- Palladius: мэ (mɛ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /mə/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ˙ㄇㄛ
- Tongyong Pinyin: mo̊
- Wade–Giles: mo5
- Yale: mwo
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .mo
- Palladius: мо (mo)
- Sinological IPA (key): /mu̯ɔ/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Note: mo - rare, in poetry, songs.
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: mo1
- Yale: mō
- Cantonese Pinyin: mo1
- Guangdong Romanization: mo1
- Sinological IPA (key): /mɔː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
Definitions
麼
- A particle placed after the topic of a compound sentence, used to express tactfulness.
- A suffix for forming pronouns or adverbs.
Compounds
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ˙ㄇㄚ
- Tongyong Pinyin: må
- Wade–Giles: ma5
- Yale: ma
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .ma
- Palladius: ма (ma)
- Sinological IPA (key): /mä/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ˙ㄇㄜ
- Tongyong Pinyin: me̊
- Wade–Giles: mê5
- Yale: me
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .me
- Palladius: мэ (mɛ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /mə/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: mo1
- Yale: mō
- Cantonese Pinyin: mo1
- Guangdong Romanization: mo1
- Sinological IPA (key): /mɔː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Southern Min
Note:
- mó͘, mô͘:
- literary reading.
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: ma1
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ma
- Sinological IPA (key): /ma³³/
- (Teochew)
Definitions
麼
- Alternative form of 嗎／吗 (“final interrogative particle”)
- 2020, “拼命無恙 [In a Funk]”, 林夕 [Albert Leung] (lyrics), 林家謙 [Terence Lam] (music)performed by 林家謙 [Terence Lam]:
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄚˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: má
- Wade–Giles: ma2
- Yale: má
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ma
- Palladius: ма (ma)
- Sinological IPA (key): /mä³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: mo1
- Yale: mō
- Cantonese Pinyin: mo1
- Guangdong Romanization: mo1
- Sinological IPA (key): /mɔː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
Definitions
麼
Synonyms
Compounds
Etymology 4
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: mó
- Wade–Giles: mo2
- Yale: mwó
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mo
- Palladius: мо (mo)
- Sinological IPA (key): /mu̯ɔ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, variant)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: mǒ
- Wade–Giles: mo3
- Yale: mwǒ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: moo
- Palladius: мо (mo)
- Sinological IPA (key): /mu̯ɔ²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: mo1 / mo5
- Yale: mō / móh
- Cantonese Pinyin: mo1 / mo5
- Guangdong Romanization: mo1 / mo5
- Sinological IPA (key): /mɔː⁵⁵/, /mɔː¹³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Middle Chinese: maX
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*maːlʔ/
Definitions
麼
Compounds
Etymology 5
Probably from 物 (MC mjut, “what”) (Zhang, 2001; Jiang, 2018).
Pronunciation
Definitions
麼
- (Hakka) what
- 麼個／么个 [Sixian Hakka] ― má-ke [Pha̍k-fa-sṳ] ― what
- 麼人／么人 [Sixian Hakka] ― má-ngìn [Pha̍k-fa-sṳ] ― who (literally what person)
Compounds
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Kanji
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Readings
Hanja
麼 • (ma) (hangeul 마, revised ma, McCune–Reischauer ma, Yale ma)
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