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干吗
gàn​má HSK3

why

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
干吗 (幹嗎) gàn​má
why verb
why; what for; for what reason. A colloquial way of asking about the purpose or reason for an action.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
117.0 per million appears in 26% of films
Written text
6.99 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 3

Cross-References

Variant of

  • 干嘛 gàn​má

Sources
Definitions
AI-generated definitions
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)