干嘛 gànmá why on earth Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 干嘛 幹嘛 gànmá why on earth adverb Used to ask for a reason, often implying that the action is unnecessary or surprising; whatever for 你干嘛叫他离我远点？ nǐ gànmá jiào tā lí wǒ yuǎn diǎn? Why did you tell him to stay away from me? 你干嘛卖旧报纸？ nǐ gànmá mài jiù bàozhǐ? Why are you selling old newspapers? what are you doing verbadverb Used as a question to ask what someone is doing or what is going on 你干嘛戳我呀？ nǐ gànmá chuō wǒ ya? Why are you poking me? 那么这台手机到底能干嘛呢？ nàme zhè tái shǒujī dàodǐ néng gànmá ne? So, what can this mobile phone actually do? Frequency Written text 32.4 per million Cross-References Has variant 干吗 gànmáReferenced by 嘛 má Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
干嘛 幹嘛 gànmá why on earth adverb Used to ask for a reason, often implying that the action is unnecessary or surprising; whatever for 你干嘛叫他离我远点？ nǐ gànmá jiào tā lí wǒ yuǎn diǎn? Why did you tell him to stay away from me? 你干嘛卖旧报纸？ nǐ gànmá mài jiù bàozhǐ? Why are you selling old newspapers? what are you doing verbadverb Used as a question to ask what someone is doing or what is going on 你干嘛戳我呀？ nǐ gànmá chuō wǒ ya? Why are you poking me? 那么这台手机到底能干嘛呢？ nàme zhè tái shǒujī dàodǐ néng gànmá ne? So, what can this mobile phone actually do? Frequency Written text 32.4 per million Cross-References Has variant 干吗 gànmáReferenced by 嘛 má Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
