马 (馬) mǎ
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noun
horse
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Nature 大自然 , Concept: Animal 动物
Notes: For example, in literary Chinese, 老馬識途 'an old horse knows the road', from Han Feizi's Shuo Lin Shang (DCP 'L50'; Guoyu '馬' n 1; Unihan '馬') -
noun
Kangxi radical 187
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals 部首
Notes: Horse (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7; Guoyu '馬' n 4) -
proper noun
Ma
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names 名字 , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (Guoyu '馬' n 3; Unihan '馬') -
noun
historic tool for tallying numbers
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '馬' n 2)
Contained in
- 秣马利兵(秣馬利兵) feed the horses and sharpen the weapons
- 六马仰秣(六馬仰秣) six horses with heads raised eating fodder
- 秣马厉兵(秣馬厲兵) feed the horses and sharpen the weapons / get ready for battle
- 厉兵粟马(厲兵粟馬) sharpen the weapons and feed the horses / get ready for battle
- 励兵秣马(勵兵秣馬) sharpen the weapons and feed the horses / get ready for battle
- 砺兵秣马(礪兵秣馬) sharpen the weapons and feed the horses / get ready for battle
- 砺戈秣马(礪戈秣馬) sharpen the spears and feed the horses / get ready for battle
- 马六甲海峡(馬六甲海峽) Strait of Malacca (Melaka)
- 马克思(馬克思) Marx
- 马丁路德金(馬丁路德金) Martin Luther King
- 马上(馬上) immediately
- 走马观花(走馬觀花) look at something very briefly / to have a cursory look and gain a shallow understanding
- 厉兵秣马(厲兵秣馬) to sharpen the weapons and feed the horses / to get ready for battle
- 马术(馬術) equestrianism / horsemanship
- 马拉松(馬拉松) marathon
- 跳马(跳馬) vault
- 鞍马(鞍馬) pommel horse ; saddle and horse
- 人马(人馬) men and horses ; cavalry / troops ; a centaur
- 马虎(馬虎) careless / sloppy / negligent
- 马克(馬克) Mark ; mark
- 马路(馬路) street / road
- 马克思主义(馬克思主義) Marxism
- 马车(馬車) a horse-drawn carriage / a chariot
- 马达(馬達) a motor
- 马力(馬力) horsepower
- 马铃薯(馬鈴薯) potato
- 马戏(馬戲) the circus
- 千军万马(千軍萬馬) a mighty force
- 兵荒马乱(兵荒馬亂) the turmoil and chaos of war
- 斑马线(斑馬線) to hatch
- 马刺(馬刺) riding spurs
- 驷马难追(駟馬難追) [a spoken word is] hard to catch even with a team of four horses
- 驷马高车(駟馬高車) a team of four horses with a high carriage / wealth and luxury
- 高车驷马(高車駟馬) a team of four horses with a high carriage / wealth and luxury
- 纸马儿(紙馬兒) paper doll
- 马瑙(馬瑙) carnelian
- 牛马(牛馬) oxen and horses / beasts of burden
- 亚马逊(亞馬遜) Amazon
- 骡马(騾馬) a pack animal / horse and mule
Also contained in
马拉巴尔 、 兵马俑 、 马五爷 、 马鞍山市 、 罗马 、 司马迁 、 司马谈 、 马尔康 、 风马旗 、 司马彪 、 大马士革 、 司马炎
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷一百九十八 志第一百五十一 兵十二 Volume 198 Treatises 151: Military 12 History of Song 宋史 — count: 375
- 《卷十一‧馬部》 Scroll 11, Mǎ Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 216
- 卷九十二 志第六十八 兵四 Volume 92 Treatises 68: Military 4 History of Ming 明史 — count: 124
- 卷三百三十二 列傳第二百二十 西域四 Volume 332 Biographies 220: Western Regions 4 History of Ming 明史 — count: 108
- 卷一百〇一 志第四十九: 兵四 Volume 101 Treatises 54: Military 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 81
- 卷八十 志第五十六 食貨四 Volume 80 Treatises 56: Finance and Economics 4 History of Ming 明史 — count: 81
- 第十五回 Chapter 15 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 74
- 卷十四 Scroll 14 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 70
- 第九十九回 Chapter 99 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 68
- 夏官司馬 第四 4. Offices of Summer and Minister of War Rites of Zhou 周禮 — count: 64
Collocations
- 马维 (馬維) 我馬維駒 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧鹿鳴之什‧皇皇者華 Minor odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Lu Ming - Huang Huang Zhe Hua — count: 4
- 马曰 (馬曰) 大子與郭榮扣馬曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 4
- 思马 (思馬) 思馬斯臧 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 魯頌‧駉之什‧駉 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Jiong - Jiong — count: 4
- 牡马 (牡馬) 駉駉牡馬 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 魯頌‧駉之什‧駉 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Jiong - Jiong — count: 4
- 马陵 (馬陵) 同盟于馬陵 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 4
- 秣马 (秣馬) 秣馬矣 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 3
- 马正 (馬正) 季氏以公鉏為馬正 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 3
- 归马 (歸馬) 歸馬于華山之陽 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 武成 Zhou Shu - Successful Completion of the War — count: 3
- 趣马 (趣馬) 蹶維趣馬 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧節南山之什‧十月之交 Minor odes of the kingdom - Jie Nan Shan Zhi Shen - Shi Yue Zhi Jiao — count: 3
- 饮马 (飲馬) 將飲馬於河而歸 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 3