瑪

See also: 玛

瑪 U+746A, 瑪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-746A ← 瑩 [U+7469] CJK Unified Ideographs 瑫 → [U+746B]

Translingual

Han character

瑪 (radical 96 玉+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一土尸手火 (MGSQF), four-corner 1112₇, composition ⿰𤣩馬)

References

• KangXi: page 739, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21156
• Dae Jaweon: page 1149, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1130, character 9
• Unihan data for U+746A

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Chinese

trad.		瑪
simp.		玛

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (馬) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
馬	mraːʔ
碼	mraːʔ
罵	mraːʔ, *mraːs
鷌	mraːʔ
鰢	mraːʔ
瑪	mraːʔ
榪	mraːs
傌	mraːs
禡	mraːs
媽	maːʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mǎ (ma³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄚˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maa⁵
• Min Nan (POJ): bé / bée / má

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: mǎ
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄚˇ
    • Wade-Giles: ma³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: maa
    • IPA ^(key): /ma̠²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: maa⁵
    • Yale: máh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maa⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: ma⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /mɑː¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bé
    • Tâi-lô: bé
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bea
    • IPA (Taipei): /be⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /be⁴¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /be⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bée
    • Tâi-lô: bée
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɛ⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: má
    • Tâi-lô: má
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mar
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /mã⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /mã⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /mã⁴¹/

Note:

• bé/bée - vernacular;
• má - literary.

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• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*mraːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	瑪
Reading #	1/1
No.	8720
Phonetic component	馬
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	馬
Old Chinese	/*mraːʔ/
Notes	古作馬

Definitions

瑪

1. Only used in 瑪瑙／玛瑙 (mǎnǎo).

Compounds

• 他瑪羅池／他玛罗池
• 伊瑪目／伊玛目 (yīmǎmù)
• 伽瑪射線／伽玛射线
• 利瑪／利玛
• 威妥瑪式／威妥玛式

• 威瑪憲法／威玛宪法
• 寧瑪派／宁玛派
• 拉瑪猿／拉玛猿
• 新藝拉瑪／新艺拉玛
• 瑪哩花／玛哩花

• 瑪瑙／玛瑙 (mǎnǎo)
• 瑪瑙紋／玛瑙纹
• 瑪自達神／玛自达神
• 超級瑪琍／超级玛琍

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Japanese

Kanji

瑪

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. agate
2. onyx

Readings

• Goon: め (me)
• Kan’on: ば (ba)
• Kan’yōon: ま (ma)

Compounds

• 縞瑪瑙 (しまめのう) (shimamenō)
• 瑪 (め)瑙 (のう) (menō)

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Korean

Hanja

瑪 • (ma) (hangeul 마, revised ma, McCune-Reischauer ma, Yale ma)

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Vietnamese

Han character

瑪 (mã, mẽ)

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