mǎ
horse
Pictograph of a horse.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 馬
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
at once | ||
horse | ||
mythical horse | ||
Rome, capital of Italy | ||
street |
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mˤraʔ | maeX | mǎ | horse |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 89.0597% of movies
233rd most common character in movies
276th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+99AC |
Shuowen | “馬,怒也;武也。象馬頭髦尾四足之形。,古文。,籀文馬與同,有髦。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.741-742
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