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要yào嘛ma

  1. either ...; or ...

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

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要
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

(bound form) to demand; to coerce

Pinyin
yāo
Strokes
9
Frequency
24 of 2500
Words starting with 要Words ending in 要Anywhere in a word
嘛
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

used in 唵嘛呢叭咪吽[an3 ma2 ni2 ba1 mi1 hong1], (Tw) (coll.) what?

Pinyin
má
Strokes
14
Frequency
292 of 2500
Words starting with 嘛Words ending in 嘛Anywhere in a word