嘛
mamá HSK6

final exclamatory particle

嘛 ma frequency
obviousness modal particle
modal particle indicating that something is obvious or self-evident

既然你都知道了，那就直接告诉他嘛。

jì​rán nǐ dōu zhī​dào le, nà jiù zhí​jiē gào​su tā ma.

Since you already know, just tell him directly.

pause modal particle
particle used to indicate a pause for emphasis or to mark the topic of a sentence

这件事嘛，我也没主意。

zhè jiàn shì ma, wǒ yě méi zhǔ​yi.

As for this matter, I don't have any ideas either.

嘛 má
what modal particle
colloquial Taiwanese term meaning what

你在干嘛？

nǐ zài gàn má?

What are you doing?

mantra syllable modal particle
used in the Buddhist mantra Om mani padme hum

僧侣们整天都在念诵唵嘛呢叭咪吽。

sēng​lǚ men zhěng​tiān dōu zài niàn​sòng ǎn​má​ní​bā​mī​hōng.

The monks chant 'Om Mani Padme Hum' all day long.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,628th most common 59.3 per million
Movie subtitles
420th most common 352.6 per million appears in 69% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
491.0 per million appears in 69% of films
Written text
129.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+561B

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