嘛

HSK 6#614 by frequencyradical 口

ma["y"]

modal particle indicating that sth is obvious; particle indicating a pause for emphasis

má

used in 唵嘛呢叭咪吽[an3 ma2 ni2 ba1 mi1 hong1]; (Tw) (coll.) what?

Examples

在家干嘛呢？

What are you doing home?

你到底怎么回事嘛

What is wrong with you?

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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.