マ

Character	マ
Unicode name	KATAKANA LETTER MA
Codepoint	U+30DE

See also ム, and 々

Japanese

Stroke order

Etymology

Simplified in the Heian period from the man'yōgana kanji 末.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ma]

Syllable

マ (Hepburn romanization ma)

1. The katakana syllable マ (ma), whose equivalent in hiragana is ま (ma). It is the thirty-first syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is マ行ア段 (MA-gyō, A-dan; “row MA, section A”).

Usage notes

Unlike the hiragana system which is used for Japanese language words for which kanji does not cover, the katakana syllabary is primarily used for transcription of foreign language words into Japanese and the writing of loan words (collectively gairaigo), as well as to represent onomatopoeia, technical and scientific terms, and the names of plants, animals, and minerals. Names of Japanese companies as well as certain Japanese language words are also written in katakana rather than the other systems.^[edit]

Derived characters

• 々

Related terms

• For a list of words starting with マ (ma) see: Special:Allpages/マ

See also

• (Katakana) 片仮名; アァ, イィ, ウゥヴ, エェ, オォ, カヵガ, キギ, クグ, ケヶゲ, コゴ, サザ, シジ, スズ, セゼ, ソゾ, タダ, チヂ, ツッヅ, テデ, トド, ナ, ニ, ヌ, ネ, ノ, ハバパ, ヒビピ, フブプ, ヘベペ, ホボポ, マ, ミ, ム, メ, モ, ヤャ, ユュ, ヨョ, ラ, リ, ル, レ, ロ, ワヮ, ヰ, ヱ, ヲ, ン, ー, ヽ, ヾ ^[edit]