exclamatory final particle
interrogative final particle
suffix, used to form interrogative 什麼|什么[shen2 me5], what?, indefinite 這麼|这么[zhe4 me5] thus, etc

= 丿 + : Mahatma Gandhi wears a fake nose and wants to eat a banana on top of the elevator, but it's actually very hard to eat a banana when you're wearing a fake nose.
tiny / insignificant

麼 character breakdown

surname Yao
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 吆[yao1], to shout

= : Mnemonic symbol from 幺点, ace: an ace card.

= : Maud Younger is going to a poker tournament in the aorta. Before she enters, she hides an ace in her fake nose in front of the aorta.
variant of 麻[ma2] / hemp

= 广 + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) is busy deploying Christmas Trees (林) in the ashram's kitchen (a2). He attaches each of the small forest's (林) trees to a parachute (广) using flax fiber (麻) and then throws them towards their destination.
surname Ma

= 广 + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) is busy deploying Christmas Trees (林) in the ashram's kitchen (a2). He attaches each of the small forest's (林) trees to a parachute (广) using flax fiber (麻) and then throws them towards their destination.
generic name for hemp, flax etc / hemp or flax fiber for textile materials / sesame / CL:縷|缕[lü3] / (of materials) rough or coarse / pocked / pitted / to have pins and needles or tingling / to feel numb

= 广 + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) is busy deploying Christmas Trees (林) in the ashram's kitchen (a2). He attaches each of the small forest's (林) trees to a parachute (广) using flax fiber (麻) and then throws them towards their destination.

Characters with 麼 as component

dialectal or obsolete equivalent of 媽|妈[ma1] / Taiwan pr. [ma1]

Words with 麼

what? / something / anything
how? / what? / why?
what are you doing? / what's he up to?
what kind? / what sort? / what appearance?
what kind?; what sort?
how (wonderful etc) / what (a great idea etc) / however (difficult it may be etc) / (in interrogative sentences) how (much etc) / to what extent
and so on / and what not
not very / not particularly
somewhere / someplace / where
who? / what (kind of) person?
lit. whatever mountain one is on, one should sing its songs (idiom) / fig. when in Rome, do as the Romans do
see 幹嘛|干嘛[gan4 ma2]
not up to much / very indifferent / nothing great about it / nothing good to be said about it
What's up? / What's going on? / What happened?

Sentences with 麼

麼 currently does not appear in any sentence.