麼

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)

• 嚒 嬤

• 麽 (Variant traditional form of 麼)

• KangXi: 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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *maːlʔ) : phonetic 麻 (OC *mraːl) + semantic 幺 (“small, tiny”).

From 物 (MC mɨut̚, “thing”), from 什物 (MC d͡ʑiɪp̚ mɨut̚, “miscellaneous items”) > 什麼／什么 (shénme) (Norman, 1988; Zhang, 1982).

麼

1. A particle placed after the first clause 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. [Pinyin]

   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

麼

1. Alternative form of 嗎／吗 (ma, “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 [Jyutping]

     (please add an English translation of this example)

   • 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.]

     From: 2020, 林家謙 [Terence Lam], lyrics by 林夕 [Albert Leung], 拼命無恙 [In a Funk]

     ngo⁵ fong³ haa⁶ nei⁵ koek³ mei⁶ fong³ dai¹ seoi⁴ mo¹ [Jyutping]

     (please add an English translation of this example)

麼

1. (dialectal Mandarin) what

麼

1. tiny; insignificant

   幺麼／幺麽  ―  yāomó  ―  small; minute

2. a surname

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

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)

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• 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)

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

1. small
2. thin

麼: Hán Nôm readings: ma

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