まあ
well...
The noise you make when a thing is fine but not actually good. A shrug, half a smile, and a long drawn-out maa: it'll do. まあ.
The hesitating well, the one that buys you a moment before you answer. よく is well as in skilfully or often, and じゃ is the well that moves things along.
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