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干嘛

gàn má

2-character word Traditional 幹嘛

What 干嘛 means

1. what are you doing?
2. whatever for?
3. why on earth?

The characters in 干嘛

• 干gāndry; dried food; empty; hollow
• 嘛máused in 唵嘛呢叭咪吽; (Taiwan; colloquial) what?

Example sentences

• 你在干嘛？
  What are you doing?
• 然后干嘛？
  What do we do after this?
• 我干嘛在乎？
  Why do I even care?
• 在家干嘛呢？
  What are you doing home?
• 干嘛怪我们？
  Why blame us?
• 你要这钱干嘛？
  Nǐ yào zhè qián gànmá?
  What do you need the money for?

Sounds the same

Read gàn má, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 干吗variant of 干嘛
• 干么variant of 干嘛