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Character  ま 
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER MA
Codepoint U+307E

Japanese

Stroke order
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Etymology

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji in the cursive sōsho style.

Pronunciation

Syllable

(Hepburn romanization ma)

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

Related terms

See also

Noun

(romaji ma)

  1. : demon, devil, evil spirit, evil influence
  2. : space, timing
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