吗má · ma
final interrogative particle. 6 strokes, radical 口, first met in HSK 1.
Pinyin má · maStrokes 6Radical 口Band HSK 1Words 2
How to write 吗
Strokes 1–3 write 口, then strokes 4–6 write 马.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 吗 · the stroke-order rules
What 吗 is made of
口 (kǒu, mouth) and 马 (mǎ, horse).
口 carries the meaning — mouth — and 马 carries the sound.
Words that use 吗
| 吗 | (question particle, turns a statement into a yes/no question) 放在句子末尾用来向人提问 请问，王先生在吗？大门口有位女士让我来找他。 Siyuan Teahouse, lesson 26, 见老邻居数椅子 |
| 干吗 | for what reason 问一件事是出于什么目的、为什么 妈妈笑着问弟弟藏起来干吗。Mum laughed and asked her son for what reason he was hiding. Lesson 210, 坦诚相见与心理对话 · 婚姻家庭与人生百态 · Family Bonds, Marital Life & Human Character |
Characters that share the sound part 马
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 口
All 80 of them, and what the radical means, on the 口 radical page.