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Character Decomposition
吗=口+马
Etymology
mouth
Meanings3 pronunciations
má
(coll.) what?
ma
(question particle for "yes-no" questions)
mǎ
used in mǎ fēi
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Words with 吗 10 total
morphine (loanword)吗啡mǎ fēimanna (Israelite food)吗哪mǎ nǎmorpholine (chemistry) (loanword)吗啉mǎ lín(slang) monkey (often used humorously or self-deprecatingly by overworked laborers)吗喽ma lou(neologism, attested by 2014) (slang) Are you interested? (originally an invitation for casual sex, later generalized as a playful or humorous invitation for any activity)约吗yuē maisn't that so?不是吗bù shì ma(slang) would be better (abbr. for zhè qián mǎi pái gǔ tā bù xiāng ma for that money, a pork cutlet would be more appetizing, would it not?)不香吗bù xiāng ma
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