麼

Translingual

Stroke order

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

• 嚒 嬤

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

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 麼
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts

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

Definitions

麼

1. A particle placed after the topic of a compound sentence, used to express tactfulness.

   她麼，想走就讓她走吧。 [MSC, trad.]
   她么，想走就让她走吧。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā me, xiǎng zǒu jiù ràng tā zǒu ba.

   As for her... just let her leave if she wants to. (I don't really care.)

2. A suffix for forming pronouns or adverbs.

   什麼／什么  ―  shénme  ―  what

   怎麼／怎么  ―  zěnme  ―  how

   這麼／这么  ―  zhème  ―  like this; so; such

   多麼／多么  ―  duōme  ―  how; what; so; such

Compounds

Etymology 2

From 無 (MC mju).

Pronunciation

This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some! Particularly: “Teochew 1:22:55 ”

Definitions

麼

1. Alternative form of 嗎／吗 (“final interrogative particle”)

   你記得我麼？／你记得我么？  ―  Nǐ jìde wǒ ma?  ―  Do you remember me?

   • 理所當然我的錯　令你忽然離開　也是我錯麼 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     理所当然我的错　令你忽然离开　也是我错么 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2003, 容祖兒, 習慣失戀

     lei⁵ so² dong¹ jin⁴ ngo⁵ dik¹ co³, ling⁶ nei⁵ fat¹ jin⁴ lei⁴ hoi¹, jaa⁵ si⁶ ngo⁵ co³ mo¹

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • 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]:

     我放下你卻未放低誰麼 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     我放下你却未放低谁么 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     ngo⁵ fong³ haa⁶ nei⁵ koek³ mei⁶ fong³ dai¹ seoi⁴ mo¹

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2020, 南华潮剧社 Nam Hwa Opera, 1h22m50s from the start, in 苏六娘 The Tale Of Su Liu Niang‎:

     「母親，你真的，忍心將兒嫁到楊家麼？」 [Teochew, trad.]
     「母亲，你真的，忍心将儿嫁到杨家么？」 [Teochew, simp.]

     "Mother, how could you bear to let me marry into the Yang family?"

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Definitions

麼

1. (dialectal Mandarin) what

Synonyms

Compounds

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

Definitions

麼

1. tiny; insignificant

   幺麼／幺麽  ―  yāomó  ―  small; minute

2. a surname

Compounds

Etymology 5

Probably from 物 (MC mjut, “what”) (Zhang, 2001; Jiang, 2018).

Pronunciation

Definitions

麼

1. (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

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ま (ma)
• Kan-on: ば (ba)
• Tō-on: も (mo)
• Kun: こまかい (komakai, 麼かい); かすか (kasuka, 麼か)

Korean

Hanja

麼 • (ma) (hangeul 마, revised ma, McCune–Reischauer ma, Yale ma)

1. small
2. thin

Vietnamese

Han character

麼: Hán Nôm readings: ma

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