吗 — Chinese character
吗
ma
final interrogative particle
- Pinyin
- ma
- Radical
- 30 ⼝ (Mouth)
- Strokes
- 6
- Components
- 口 马
- Formation
- pictophonetic — mouth; meaning component 口; sound component 马
- Traditional
- 嗎
Common words with 吗
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 干吗 (幹嗎) | gàn má | variant of 干嘛 (gàn má) |
| 吗啡 (嗎啡) | mǎ fēi | morphine (loanword) |
| 吗啉 (嗎啉) | mǎ lín | morpholine (chemistry) (loanword) |
| 不是吗 (不是嗎) | bù shì ma | isn't that so? |
| 不香吗 (不香嗎) | bù xiāng ma | (slang) would be better (abbr. for 这钱买排骨它不香吗 (zhè qián mǎi pái gǔ tā bù xiāng ma) for that money, a pork cutlet would be more appetizing, would it not?) |
| 吗哪 (嗎哪) | mǎ nǎ | manna (Israelite food) |
| 吗喽 (嗎嘍) | ma lou | (slang) monkey (often used humorously or self-deprecatingly by overworked laborers) |
| 约吗 (約嗎) | yuē ma | (neologism, attested by 2014) (slang) Are you interested? (originally an invitation for casual sex, later generalized as a playful or humorous invitation for an |
English words written with 吗
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.