嘛

嘛	U+561B, 嘛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-561B

← 嘚
[U+561A]

CJK Unified Ideographs

嘜 →
[U+561C]

Translingual

Han character

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)

References

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

Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		嘛

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ma (ma⁵)

(Zhuyin): ˙ㄇㄚ
Cantonese (Jyutping): maa³
Min Nan (POJ): --ma / --mah

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: ma
  - Zhuyin: ˙ㄇㄚ
  - Wade–Giles: ma⁵
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .mha
  - IPA ^(key): /ma̠/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: maa³
  - Yale: ma
  - Cantonese Pinyin: maa³
  - Guangdong Romanization: ma³
  - IPA ^(key): /mɑː³³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: --ma
  - Tâi-lô: --ma
- (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: --mah
  - Tâi-lô: --mah

Definitions

嘛

(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!
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。 / 别著急嘛。 ― 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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Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		嘛

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): má (ma²)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄚˊ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: má
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄚˊ
  - Wade–Giles: ma²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ma
  - IPA ^(key): /ma̠³⁵/

Definitions

嘛

(dialectal) what

Compounds

幹嘛／干嘛 (gànmá)

Etymology 3

simp. and trad.		嘛

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ma (ma⁵)

(Zhuyin): ˙ㄇㄚ
Cantonese (Jyutping): maa⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: ma
  - Zhuyin: ˙ㄇㄚ
  - Wade–Giles: ma⁵
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .mha
  - IPA ^(key): /ma̠/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: maa⁴
  - Yale: màh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: maa⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: ma⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /mɑː²¹/

Definitions

嘛

Only used in 喇嘛 (lǎma).

Compounds

喇嘛 (lǎma)
喇嘛教 (Lǎmajiào)

燒喇嘛／烧喇嘛
班禪喇嘛／班禅喇嘛 (bānchán lǎma)

達賴喇嘛／达赖喇嘛 (dálài lǎma)

Etymology 4

simp. and trad.		嘛
alt. forms		嗎／吗

Pronunciation

Min Nan (POJ): mā / mǎ

Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mā
  - Tâi-lô: mā
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ma
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /mã³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /mã²²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mǎ
  - Tâi-lô: mǎ
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /mã²²/

Definitions

嘛

(Min Nan) also

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 也 (“also, too”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		亦
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		也
Mandarin	Beijing	也
	Taiwan	也
	Jinan	也
	Xi'an	也
	Wuhan	也
	Chengdu	也
	Yangzhou	也
	Hefei	也
Cantonese	Guangzhou	都、亦
	Hong Kong	都、亦
	Taishan	亦
	Yangjiang	也
Gan	Nanchang	也
Hakka	Meixian	也
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	乜
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	乜、也
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	乜
	Dongshi (Dabu)	乜
	Zhuolan (Raoping)	乜
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	嘛
Jin	Taiyuan	也
Min Bei	Jian'ou	也
Min Dong	Fuzhou	也
Min Nan	Xiamen	也、嘛
	Quanzhou	也、嘛
	Zhangzhou	也、嘛
	Taipei	也、嘛
	Chaozhou	也
Wu	Suzhou	也
Wu	Wenzhou	也
Xiang	Changsha	也
Xiang	Shuangfeng	也

Etymology 5

simp. and trad.		嘛

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): má (ma²)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄚˊ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: má
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄚˊ
  - Wade–Giles: ma²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ma
  - IPA ^(key): /ma̠³⁵/

Definitions

嘛

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

Etymology 6

simp. and trad.		嘛
alt. forms		嗎／吗

Pronunciation

Min Nan (POJ): mà

Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mà
  - Tâi-lô: mà
  - Phofsit Daibuun: max
  - IPA (Xiamen, Kaohsiung): /mã²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /mã⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /mã¹¹/

Definitions

嘛

Only used in 嘛嘛吼.

References

(Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)
“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.

Japanese

Kanji

嘛

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Goon: め (me)

Kan’on: ば (ba)

Kan’yōon: ま (ma)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

嘛 (ma)

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References

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