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么 [me] (F麼) (suffix:) 什么; 怎么 [má] [yāo] (S幺) small [mó] 麽 [ma] 吗

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么 originated as another way of writing 幺 (yāo) ‘small’, depicting two tiny silk cocoons. Another word meaning ‘small’ is 麽 or 麼 mó, written with 么 or 幺 plus 麻 má phonetic on top.
    The second syllable of the modern words shénme ‘what’, zěnme ‘how’, nàme ‘so’, etc., also came to be written with the character 麽 or 麼.
    Now among simple form characters, 么 is used instead of 麽 in 那么 nàme etc., but 麽 is used in the word 幺麽 yāomó ‘insignificant’.
    On the other hand, among full form characters, 麼 is used for writing 那麼 nàme etc., and 么 is used to write yāo in 么麼 yāomó ‘insignificant’.
►references: Wieger:90a; Karlgren:AD593; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.33.2; Mathews:7282; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:82.03; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:003.1.02
►components: 丿厶
►Cantonese: mo\
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Unicode: U+4E48
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-<WL>么 [me] (F麼) (suffix:) 什么; 怎么  [má]  [yāo] (S幺) small  [mó] [ma]
+<WL>么 [me] (F麼) (suffix:) 什么; 怎么  [má]  [yāo] (S幺) small@@  [mó] 麽  [ma] 吗
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 么 originated as another way of writing 幺 (yāo) ‘small’, depicting two tiny silk cocoons. Another word meaning ‘small’ is 麽 or 麼 mó, written with 么 or 幺 plus 麻 má phonetic on top.
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 #rW.90a K.AD593 D.1.33.2 M.7282 KX..82.03 B.003.1.02
 #c丿厶
-#y mo\</WL>
+#y mo\
+</WL>