Mnemonic comic for 么
Translation
Mnemonic
An interrogative particle (么) interrogates Mahatma Gandhi (m) why he is shoving a banana (丿) into a fake nose(厶) on top of the elevator (e5), but Mahatma Gandhi just replies “what???” (么).
All translations for 么
youngest / most junior / tiny / one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military) / one or ace on dice or dominoes / variant of 吆[yao1], to shout
exclamatory final particle
interrogative final particle
suffix, used to form interrogative 什麼|什么[shen2 me5], what?, indefinite 這麼|这么[zhe4 me5] thus, etc
variant of 麼|么[me5]
Comments
么 character breakdown
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]
old variant of 某[mou3]
old variant of 私[si1]