yāomema

[question particle]

Variant form of , which is a pictograph of a twisted thread.

Definitions

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yāo

youngest; most junior; tiny; one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military); one or ace on dice or dominoes; variant of [yāo], to shout

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Yāo

surname Yao

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yāo

one; tiny, small

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me

interrogative final particle; insignificant, small, tiny; suffix, used to form interrogative 什麼|什么[shén​me], what?, indefinite 這麼|这么[zhè​me] thus, etc

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exclamatory final particle

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me

variant of |[me]

Most common words with 么
Freq.
Word
Meaning

什么

what?

怎么

how?

这么

so much

那么

like that

为什么

why?

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.7437% of movies

11th most common character in movies

63rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

3

Traditional

Unicode

U+4E48
Sources

黃德寬《古文字譜系疏證》p.416



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