U+561B "嘛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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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
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
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
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
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
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10678.070
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 má
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