Final particle 哈

[Hofmann]

What does the final particle 哈 do in the following?

 

我直接買過去吧哈
我打算下課以後去中心買點然後去辦公室等你哈

我下次再試試好了哈

[Shelley]

Best I can come up with is it is used to reproduce the sound of laughter if used twice as in 哈哈.

 

Just one though, is breathing out with the mouth open.

 

Or an abbreviation for Haerbin, but that doesn't fit here.

 

I can't find it being used as a particle in the same way as 吧 or 了.

 

However, I am only putting in my 2 cents because your question intrigued me and i wanted to find out for my self.

 

I don't know how much new information I have provided.

[skylee]

In the sentences above, 哈's function is to ask for the other person's agreement. It is the same as asking 好不好 / 知道了嗎.

[yueni]

It's just a 吧、呢、啊 type of ending. I think it's just a short form for "好吗“.

 

I'm pretty sure this is actually a new use of 哈, because I've only recently started seeing my Chinese friends using it in this fashion.

 

I've also seen it used in a context where it doesn't mean "好吗", where a girl I know ends with: 谢谢哈, and it really just doesn't mean anything there.

[Kamille]

It think I understand what sound it is supposed to depict. As Skylee and yueni said, it's asking for approbation, or it can be a way to insist that you are going to do something (as in 我直接買過去吧哈). I'm not sure it's supposed to be a short form for "好嗎". At least I've always interpreted it as just a simple sound without too much meaning. 

One of the reasons why I doubt the both are linked is that I also understand why you can put it after 謝謝. It's also in a way insisting on the fact that you are saying thank you. It makes it sound a bit more familiar though. 

 

But that's only my understanding. I had never seen it written. Only spoken.

[skylee]

I'm not sure it's supposed to be a short form for "好嗎".

Same here.

[Shelley]

I figured it was just a noise, a sound of encouragement? or prompting for agreement?