an alternative to the word麼, a final interrogative particle
么 [幺]
Jyutping
maa1
Pinyin
yāo
Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
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
Definitions (CC-CANTO)
an alternative to the word嗎, a final interrogative particle
么 [幺]
Jyutping
jiu1
Pinyin
yāo
Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
surname Yao
Definitions (CC-CANTO)
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yāo [吆], to shout
Chapter 15, “How the 300-year propagation of Russian Orthodoxy in China failed: From the perspective of literature” by Lin Jinghua, attempts to explain why even though the time Russian Orthodoxy came to China to preach legally compared to Catholicism and Protestantism is longer, it has never been notably growing.
When he heard Principal Chen's speech, he turned over and asked me what the principal's main subject is. When I told him that it is physics, he was very shocked and praised him repeatedly, saying that he never thought that Tsinghua's principal would have such deep understanding of the Song dynasty, especially that he knows the new and old views on the historical explanation of the Song dynasty and so on.
Mandarin
你这孩子真手欠,你看你这么一鼓捣,钟不走了不是?
你这孩子真手欠,你看你这么一鼓捣,钟不走了不是?
nǐ zhè hái zi zhēn shǒu qiàn , nǐ kàn nǐ zhè me yī gǔ dao , zhōng bù zǒu le bù shì ?
You are such a troublemaker (who's got a pair of misbehaving hands)! The clock is now broken after you played with it.