User:Robert Ullmann/Prologue/examples/馬

See also 马

1. (Japanese, kanji) horse
2. (Japanese, noun) horse
3. (Japanese, noun, shogi) promoted bishop
4. (Japanese, noun) sawhorse. A four-leg stand made by wood or iron for supporting some materials, such as a car body for car maintenance, or a piece of wood for sawing it.
5. (Japanese, noun) a horse
6. (Translingual, Han character) horse
7. (Translingual, Han character) used as a surname
8. (Translingual, Han character) KangXi radical 187 馬

Translingual

simplified	马
traditional	馬

Stroke order

Etymology

Simplified history of the character's forms

Oracle bone	Bronze	Large seal	Small seal	Clerical	Regular

Speed variations

Regular	Semi-cursive	Cursive

Pictogram (象形)

derived from the pictogram of a horse with its head turned to look back and showing a flowing mane in the wind. The four short strokes at its base represent its feet, and the seeping stroke in the lower right represents its tail.

Han character

馬 (radical 187 馬+0, 10 strokes, cangjie input 尸手尸火 (SQSF), four-corner 7132₇)

1. horse
2. used as a surname
3. KangXi radical 187 馬

Derived terms

• 媽, 嗎, 闖, 罵, 螞, 碼, 瑪, 榪, 獁, 傌, 溤, 鐸, 遤, 鎷, 禡, 䣕, 㾺, 褭
• Index:Chinese radical/馬

References

• KangXi: page 1433, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44572
• Dae Jaweon: page 1956, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4539, character 1
• Unihan data for U+99AC

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Cantonese

Hanzi

馬 (simplified 马, jyutping maa5, Yale ma5)

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Japanese

Kanji

Japanese stroke order

馬 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. horse

Readings

• Go'on: め (me)
• Kan'on: ば (ba)
• Kanyō'on: ま (ma)
• Kun: うま (uma)

Compounds

河馬 (kaba) 馬酔木 馬が合う 馬面 馬鹿 馬鹿力 馬脚 馬具 馬券 馬耳東風 馬車

馬車馬 馬術 馬上 馬力 馬鈴薯 馬簾 馬子 馬手 木馬 競馬 弓馬

Etymology 1

Noun

馬 (hiragana うま, romaji uma)

1. horse
2. (shogi) promoted bishop
3. sawhorse. A four-leg stand made by wood or iron for supporting some materials, such as a car body for car maintenance, or a piece of wood for sawing it.

Etymology 2

Noun

馬 (hiragana むま, romaji muma)

1. a horse
   • c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 20, poem #4372)

   阿志加良能 美佐可多麻波理 可閇理美須 阿例波久江由久 阿良志乎母 多志夜波婆可流 不破乃世伎 久江弖和波由久 牟麻能都米 都久志能佐伎尓 知麻利為弖 阿例波伊波々牟 母呂々々波 佐祁久等麻乎須 可閇利久麻弖尓

   • c. 935 Tosa Nikki

   ふぢはらのときざね、ふなぢなれど、むまのはなむけす。

   • c. 935 Tosa Nikki

   けふはあをむまをおもへど、かひなし。

References

• Suzuki, Tomotarō; Hisao Kaaguchi, Yoshimoto Endō, Kyōichi Nishishita (1957). Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 20: Tosa Nikki, Kagerō Nikki, Izumi Shikibu Nikki, Sarashina Nikki (in Japanese). Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten. →ISBN.
• Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki [c. 759] (2003). Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 4: Man'yōshū 4 (in Japanese). Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten. →ISBN.

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Korean

Hanja

馬
Eumhun:

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

• Name (hangeul): 말, 성()

Compounds

• 馬車 (마차, macha): horse-drawn carriage
• 競馬 (경마, gyeongma): horserace

See also

• 말 (mal)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

馬 (simplified 马, pinyin mǎ (ma3), Wade-Giles ma³)

Compounds

• 馬馬虎虎 (mǎmǎhǔhǔ; 马马虎虎)
• 馬德里
• 馬拉松

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Min Nan

Hanzi

馬 (POJ bé,má)

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Vietnamese

Han character

馬 (mã, mứa, mựa, mở)