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吗 — stroke order
Watch how to write 吗 (ma) stroke by stroke. 吗 has 6 strokes and means “final interrogative particle”. It appears in common words such as 干吗 (see 幹嘛|干嘛) and 吗啡 (morphine). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 吗
The most common words that use 吗 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
How 吗 is written
- Radical
- 口
- Components
- 口 ＋ 马
- Formation
- Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 口 and a phonetic component 马 (mouth).