U+561B "嘛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
嘛
U+561B "嘛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in both Mandarin and other East Asian languages, typically functioning as a modal particle or an informal suffix. In Mandarin, it is often placed at the end of a sentence to soften a statement, indicate that something is obvious, or convey a tone of impatience or reassurance, similar to the English "duh" or "of course." It can also serve as a question particle in colloquial speech, adding a casual or rhetorical flavor. Beyond its grammatical role, the character appears in compound words and names, and its structure consists of the "mouth" radical (口) on the left, with a phonetic component related to the sound "ma."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+561B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 嘛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 嘛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x98 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x561B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000561B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u561b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B9C0 |
| kCCCII | 213725 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6828 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6828 |
| kCangjie | RIJC |
| kCantonese | maa1 |
| kCihaiT | 290.201 |
| kCowles | 2554 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0429.190 |
| kDefinition | final exclamatory particle |
| kEACC | 213725 |
| kFenn | 494I |
| kFennIndex | 326.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6009.4 |
| kGB0 | 3479 |
| kGB1 | 3479 |
| kHanYu | 10678.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu | ma(246) má(93) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10678.070:má,ma |
| kHKGlyph | 0660 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0429.190 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10678.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0206.201 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-426F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B9C0 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5357 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2853 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6828 |
| kJapanese | マ |
| kTGH | 2013:3110 |
| kJapaneseOn | MA |
| kJis0 | 5155 |
| kKangXi | 0206.201 |
| kKorean | MA |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0859 |
| kMandarin | ma |
| kMatthews | 4304 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1727 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008603 MJ008603:E0101 MJ008604:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 04230 04230:E0101 |
| kNelson | 0976 |
| kPhonetic | 862 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4426+30.3.11 C+4426+200.11.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 116.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | ma粵maa3 ma粵maa4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 8204 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 241.070:ma |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kXerox | 256:162 |
| kXHC1983 | 0758.080:ma |