horse; surname Ma

HSK 3 #276

Character data

HSK 3
Frequency 276th character
Radical ⾺ (187.0)
Strokes 3
Index # 72
TRADITIONAL

Definitions

马 mǎ
  1. 1. horse
  2. 2. surname Ma
  3. 3. abbr. for Malaysia 西mǎ lái xī yà
  4. 4. horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess
  5. 5. knight in Western chess
  6. 6. CL

Stroke order

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Words containing 马

Word Meaning
Malaya
Malay person or people
lackey; errand boy; lit. runner before a carriage
Maharashtra (state in India)
Martha (biblical name)
a careless person; scatterbrain; frivolous and forgetful
caravan of horses carrying goods
Year of the Horse (e.g. 2002)
Diego Maradona (1960-), Argentine footballer
Martinique (French Caribbean island)
Maputo, capital of Mozambique
Ma Zhiyuan, Yuan dynasty playwright
horseshoe shape
Maguan County in Yunnan
to be buried in a horse hide (idiom)
emperor's son-in-law
keep your word; can't take words back
conspirators under one roof
troika
to suffer a serious setback (idiom)
to jaywalk
Amazon River
fig. tumultuous; hubbub
exhausted; worn out; fatigued
fig. everyone makes mistakes