Sentence Composition
| 1 | 我 | wǒ |
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| =2 | 是 | shì |
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| =2 | 是 | shì | variant of 是 shì |
| 3 | 隻 | zhī | classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc |
| =4 | 貓 | māo |
classifier: 隻 |
| =4 | 貓 | máo | used in 猫腰 máoyāo |
| =5 | 嗎 | má | (coll.) what? |
| =5 | 嗎 | mǎ | used in 吗啡 mǎfēi |
| =5 | 嗎 | ma | (question particle for "yes-no" questions) |