么
mameyāomáYāo HSK1

[question particle]

么 (麼) ma frequency
question particle modal particle
interrogative final particle

你现在准备好了么？

nǐ xiàn​zài zhǔn​bèi hǎo le ma?

Are you ready now?

么 (麼) me
suffix pronoun
suffix used to form interrogative or indefinite pronouns such as 'what' or 'this way'

你在看什么？

nǐ zài kàn shén​me?

What are you looking at?

幺 (么) yāo
shout adverb
to shout or call out (variant of 吆 yāo)

他在集市上大声幺喝。

tā zài jí​shì shàng dà​shēng yāo hè.

He was shouting loudly at the market.

one punctuation
the number one, used for clarity when spelling out digits or on dice and dominoes

我的房间号是一零幺。

wǒ de fáng​jiān hào shì yī líng yāo.

My room number is one-zero-one.

youngest noun
youngest, most junior, or tiny

他在家里排行老幺。

tā zài jiā lǐ pái​háng lǎo yāo.

He is the youngest child in the family.

么 (麼) má
exclamatory particle modal particle
exclamatory final particle

他有多好么！

tā yǒu duō hǎo má!

Is he really that good?

幺 (么) Yāo
surname proper name
surname Yao

幺先生在这一带很有名。

Yāo xiān​sheng zài zhè yī​dài hěn yǒu​míng.

Mr. Yao is very famous in this area.

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
63rd most common 2470.1 per million
Movie subtitles
11th most common 11908.4 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1166.1 per million appears in 52% of films
Written text
273.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Traditional
幺麼麽
Strokes
3
Unicode
U+4E48

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)