Chinese Character 吗 Meanings and components.

Form

吗

Meaning

吗 meaning[3] in English

See 嗎啡|吗啡, Morphine.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 吗 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are mouth (口) , and surname Ma (马)

Its radical[1] is: 口 (kou3) which means: Mouth, Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc), Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls, .口kou3mouth

In cangjie it is written with RNVM

How to write 吗

To write吗ma5see 嗎啡|吗啡, … you should write a combination of 口kou3mouth , 马ma3surname Ma arranged in a 吅 shape:

口 + 马 = 吗

吗 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 吗 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 吗, looks as follow:

吗
Pinyin:ma5 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: See 嗎啡|吗啡, Morphine
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
马
Pinyin:ma3
Meaning[3]: Surname Ma . Abbr. For Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 Lai2 Xi1 Ya4]

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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