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
mashed potato
bit; mouthpiece
Treaty of Shimonoseki, 1895
Maguan County, Wenshan, Yunnan
millipede
Maya (civilization of central America)
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930), Russian poet and dramatist
Horse-Face, underworld guard spirit
Ma'anshan prefecture-level city in Anhui
Ma'anshan prefecture-level city in Anhui
horsewhip
the Horse's Head nebula
morin khuur (Mongolian bowed stringed instrument)
to follow blindly (idiom); to take as one's only guide
monkey (dialect)
mule
leech
red deer; fool; idiot (from Japanese "baka")
to distinguish horse and deer easily
mommy
grow older but achieve nothing
Portulaca oleracea (common purslane)
Malong county in Qujing qǔ jìng, Yunnan
to break in a horse; a trained saddle horse