嘛

嘛 (radical 30, 口+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 口戈木木 (RIDD) or 口戈十金 (RIJC), four-corner 6009₄, composition ⿰口麻)

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 206, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4230
• Dae Jaweon: page 429, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 678, character 7
• Unihan data for U+561B

嘛

1. (stresses the preceding is obvious) Of course!

   這樣才對嘛！ / 这样才对嘛！  ―  Zhèyàng cái duì ma!  ―  That's how it should be!

2. signals a pause in a sentence, similar to the function of a comma

   你嘛，不必去。  ―  Nǐ ma, bùbì qù.  ―  You, don't need to go.

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   別著急嘛。 / 别着急嘛。  ―  Bié zhāojí ma.  ―  Don't worry.

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   什麼嘛，我還以為地震了。 [MSC, trad.]
   什么嘛，我还以为地震了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Shénme ma, wǒ hái yǐwèi dìzhèn le. [Pinyin]

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嘛

1. (dialectal) what

嘛

1. Only used in 喇嘛 (lǎma).

嘛

1. (Min Nan) also

嘛

1. Only used in 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 (ǎn mānī bēimēi hōng).

嘛

1. Only used in 嘛嘛吼.

• “嘛”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “Entry #10417”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• Go-on: め (me)
• Kan-on: ば (ba)
• Kan’yō-on: ま (ma)

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

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嘛 (ma)

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