User:Robert Ullmann/Prologue/examples/馬

See also
  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

Translingual edit

simplified

traditional

Stroke order
 

Etymology edit

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 edit

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

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

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • 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

Cantonese edit

Hanzi edit

(simplified , jyutping maa5, Yale ma5)


Japanese edit

Kanji edit

Japanese stroke order
 

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. horse

Readings edit

Compounds edit

Etymology 1 edit

Noun edit

(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 edit

Noun edit

(hiragana むま, romaji muma)

  1. a horse
    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
    ふぢはらのときざね、ふなぢなれど、むまのはなむけす。
    けふはあをむまをおもへど、かひなし。

References edit



Korean edit

Hanja edit


Eumhun:

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


Compounds edit

See also edit


Mandarin edit

Hanzi edit

(simplified , pinyin (ma3), Wade-Giles ma3)

Compounds edit


Min Nan edit

Hanzi edit

(POJ bé,má)


Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

(, mứa, mựa, mở)