马 (馬) mǎ

1. mǎ noun horse
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Nature , 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; Kroll 2015 '馬' 1, p. 292; Unihan '馬')
2. mǎ noun Kangxi radical 187
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: Horse (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7; Guoyu '馬' n 4)
3. mǎ proper noun Ma
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (Guoyu '馬' n 3; Kroll 2015 '馬' 7, p. 292; Unihan '馬')
4. mǎ noun historic tool for tallying numbers
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Made from a bamboo strip (Guoyu '馬' n 2; Kroll 2015 '馬' 6, p. 292; )

Contained in

• 君子一言，驷马难追(君子一言，駟馬難追) a nobleman's word is his bond
• 人马臂(人馬臂) Sagittarius spiral arm (of our galaxy)
• 驷马高车(駟馬高車) a team of four horses with a high carriage; wealth and luxury
• 马拉糕(馬拉糕) Cantonese sponge cake; mara cake
• 甲马(甲馬) armored soldiers and horses
• 马列毛(馬列毛) Marx, Lenin and Mao
• 条条大路通罗马(條條大路通羅馬) all roads lead to Rome; use different means to obtain the same result
• 马屁(馬屁) horse hindquarters ; flattery; boot-licking
• 俄克拉何马州(俄克拉何馬州) Oklahoma, US state
• 马蹄莲(馬蹄蓮) calla; calla lily
• 罗马诺(羅馬諾) Romano (name)
• 人马(人馬) men and horses ; cavalry; troops ; a centaur
• 司马穰苴(司馬穰苴) Sima Rangju
• 亚马逊河(亞馬遜河) Amazon River
• 索马利亚(索馬利亞) Somalia
• 卡拉马佐夫兄弟(卡拉馬佐夫兄弟) Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
• 伽马辐射(伽馬輻射) gamma radiation
• 马竿(馬竿) lasso pole; blind man's stick; white stick
• 马屁精(馬屁精) toady; bootlicker
• 单人匹马(單人匹馬) single-handedly
• 田忌赛马(田忌賽馬) Tian Ji races his horses (and accepts one loss in order to ensure two wins)
• 马马虎虎(馬馬虎虎) careless
• 招兵买马(招兵買馬) recruit soldiers and buy horses ; to recruit staff for a business
• 脱缰野马(脫韁野馬) a wild horse that refuses to be bridled (a metaphor for something that runs wild)
• 套马杆(套馬桿) lasso on long wooden pole
• 踢马刺(踢馬刺) horse spur
• 灶马(灶馬) camel cricket; Diestrammena japonica
• 小马(小馬) colt; pony
• 下马威(下馬威) display of severity immediately on taking office; initial show of strength
• 马服子(馬服子) Ma Fuzi
• 索马里先令(索馬裡先令) Somali shilling
• 超马(超馬) ultramarathon
• 马齿苋(馬齒莧) Portulaca oleracea (common purslane)

Also contained in

马来 、 马凯 、 司马迁 、 马三立 、 马兰 、 马自达 、 马山县 、 丹马令 、 司马承帧 、 悍马 、 司马炽 、 侯马 、 塔斯马尼亚 、 马文恭 、 帕拉马里博 、 马拿瓜 、 马列主义 、 罗马斗兽场

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: 374
• 《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: 123
• 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
• 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
• 第十五回 Chapter 15 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 74
• 卷十四 Scroll 14 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 69
• 第九十九回 Chapter 99 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 67
• 卷二百〇五　　列傳第九十二: 姦臣 Volume 205 Biographies 92: Treacherous Ministers History of Yuan 元史 — 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 马牛 (馬牛) 馬牛其風 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 費誓 Zhou Shu - Speech at Bi — 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
• 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
• 马师 (馬師) 因馬師頡介于襄庫 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 3