吗
mamǎmá HSK1

final interrogative particle

吗 (嗎) ma frequency
question particle modal particle
question particle for "yes-no" questions

你是学生吗？

nǐ shì xué​sheng ma?

Are you a student?

吗 (嗎) mǎ
morphine (phonetic) noun
used in the transcription of morphine (吗啡 mǎ​fēi)

药瓶上贴着醒目的标签，提示里面含有吗啡等特殊成分。

yào​píng shàng tiē zhe xǐng​mù de biāo​qiān, tí​shì lǐ​miàn hán​yǒu mǎ fēi děng tè​shū chéng​fèn.

There is a prominent label on the medicine bottle indicating that it contains special ingredients like morphine.

吗 (嗎) má
what verb
(coll.) what?

你干吗呢？

nǐ gàn má ne?

What are you doing?

Frequency
Character
Written text
453rd most common 473.6 per million
Movie subtitles
26th most common 5408.5 per million appears in 98% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
7428.1 per million appears in 98% of films
Written text
582.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Traditional
嗎
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+5417

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