马 (馬) mǎ
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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') -
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) -
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') -
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
- 对马海峡(對馬海峽) Tsushima Strait, between Japan and South Korea
- 马来西亚语(馬來西亞語) Malaysian
- 干马天尼(乾馬天尼) dry martini
- 半人马座(半人馬座) Centaurus
- 亚马逊(亞馬遜) Amazon
- 罗马化(羅馬化) romanization
- 牛马(牛馬) oxen and horses; beasts of burden
- 铁马(鐵馬) bicycle
- 俄克拉何马州(俄克拉何馬州) Oklahoma, US state
- 马槟榔(馬檳榔) caper
- 开足马力(開足馬力) to accelerate at full power; at full speed; to work as hard as possible
- 胡马依北风(胡馬依北風) the Tartar horse prefers the North wind
- 马来半岛(馬來半島) Malay Peninsula ; Malay Peninsula
- 骆马(駱馬) llama
- 马歇尔(馬歇爾) Marshall
- 危地马拉人(危地馬拉人) Guatemalan (person)
- 罗马数字(羅馬數字) Roman numerals
- 河马(河馬) hippopotamus
- 戎马生涯(戎馬生涯) army life; the experience of war
- 亚马逊河(亞馬遜河) Amazon River
- 跃马(躍馬) to gallop; to spur on a horse; to let one's steed have his head
- 害马(害馬) the black horse of the herd; fig. troublemaker; the black sheep of the family
- 战马(戰馬) warhorse
- 喜马拉雅山脉(喜馬拉雅山脈) The Himalayas; The Himalayan Mountain Range
- 驿马(驛馬) post horse
- 驷马难追(駟馬難追) [a spoken word is] hard to catch even with a team of four horses
- 马队(馬隊) cavalry; caravan of horses carrying goods
- 驽马恋栈(駑馬戀棧) an incompetent man clings to a good position
- 马尔他语(馬爾他語) Maltese
- 马来鸻(馬來鴴) Malaysian plover (Charadrius peronii)
- 放马过来(放馬過來) bring it on!; give me all you got!
- 跳马(跳馬) vault
- 马褂(馬褂) buttoned mandarin jacket
- 马缨丹(馬纓丹) lantana
Also contained in
哑曷啰哑曷啰马麻蔼由而伞塔啰尼 、 单马令 、 马南邨 、 帕拉马里博 、 司马睿 、 马邑之谋 、 司马光 、 马哈拉斯特拉 、 苏我马子 、 罗马帝国 、 马德望 、 喜马偕尔邦 、 马致远 、 司马相如 、 马克斯威尔 、 阿拉巴马 、 司马曜
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 马牛 (馬牛) 馬牛其風 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 費誓 Zhou Shu - Speech at Bi — 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
- 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