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吗

嗎traditional

HSK 1#83 by frequencyradical 口

ma["y"]

(question particle for "yes-no" questions)

má

(coll.) what?

mǎ

used in 嗎啡|吗啡[ma3 fei1]

Examples

是吗？

Is that so?

痛吗？

Does that hurt?

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.