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The character 麽 is a variant form of 麼, constructed as a phonosemantic compound: 麻 indicates the pronunciation, while 么 indicates the meaning of something tiny or insignificant. In its original usage, it referred to minute or trivial things. Later, the character shed this concrete sense and became a grammatical particle, employed widely as a suffix in question words and indefinite pronouns. Today, it no longer expresses any notion of smallness in everyday language.
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這是什麽東西？
他這麽快就回來了。
那麽我們開始吧。
多麽美麗的風景啊！
你要麽去要麽留。
你知道這是什麽意思嗎？
無論多麽困難，我們都要堅持。
他這麽做一定有他的理由，不然不會那麽堅決。
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