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

马 stroke order diagram
马 stroke order animation

Words containing 马

Word Meaning
Year 7, year of the Horse (e.g. 2002)
centaur (mythology)
Centaurus (constellation)
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky tuó sī tuǒ yē fū sī jī
Karl Marx, German thinker, founder of Marxism
want all the good without cost; want both ways
fig. you can't have your cake and eat it, too
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
Sima Guang, Song statesman and historian
Sima Yi, Three Kingdoms strategist
Sima Chengzhen (655-735), Daoist priest in Tang dynasty
fig. an open secret
Sima’s Methods, ancient military text
Sima Yan, founding emperor of Jin dynasty
Sima Rangju, ancient Qi state general
Sima Tan, Han historian; father of Sima Qian
Shiba Ryotaro, Japanese historical novelist
a nobleman's word is his bond (proverb)
to resort to bragging and flattering
call it whatever you like; I don’t care
call names; insult me, I don’t mind
Jürgen Habermas (1929-), German social philosopher
Hamar (town in Norway)
Halmahera, an island of Indonesia
single-handedly (idiom)