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

• 好马不吃回头草(好馬不吃回頭草) a good horse doesn't come back to the same pasture
• 喜马拉雅山(喜馬拉雅山) Himalayas
• 指鹿作马(指鹿作馬) to take a deer and call it a horse; deliberate inversion of the truth
• 识途老马(識途老馬) an old horse knows the way home; in difficulty, trust an experience colleague
• 抽水马桶(抽水馬桶) flush toilet
• 马王(馬王) horse trainer
• 马利亚纳海沟(馬利亞納海溝) Mariana Trench (or Marianas Trench)
• 兵马未动，粮草先行(兵馬未動，糧草先行) before the troops move, fodder and provisions go first; logistics comes before military maneuvers
• 兵马不动，粮草先行(兵馬不動，糧草先行) before troops and horses proceed, first prepare grain and fodder
• 马后炮(馬後炮) firing after the horse ; firing after the horse; belated action; giving advice in hindsight
• 超马(超馬) ultramarathon
• 马口铁(馬口鐵) tinplate; tin (tin-coated steel)
• 司马穰苴(司馬穰苴) Sima Rangju
• 跃马(躍馬) to gallop; to spur on a horse; to let one's steed have his head
• 马头(馬頭) horse's head ; pier
• 骆马(駱馬) llama
• 害马(害馬) the black horse of the herd; fig. troublemaker; the black sheep of the family
• 索马利亚(索馬利亞) Somalia
• 田忌赛马(田忌賽馬) Tian Ji races his horses (and accepts one loss in order to ensure two wins)
• 开足马力(開足馬力) to accelerate at full power; at full speed; to work as hard as possible
• 马厂(馬廠) Machang
• 干马天尼(乾馬天尼) dry martini
• 马贼(馬賊) horse thief; group of horse-mounted bandits
• 马蹄莲(馬蹄蓮) calla; calla lily
• 马面(馬面) Horse-Face
• 蹲马步(蹲馬步) to do a martial-art squat
• 招军买马(招軍買馬) recruit soldiers and buy horses ; to recruit staff for a business
• 马尔库斯(馬爾庫斯) Marcus (name)
• 马上风(馬上風) death during sexual intercourse
• 牛溲马勃(牛溲馬勃) cow's piss, horse's ulcer; worthless nonsense; insignificant
• 心猿意马(心猿意馬) heart like a frisky monkey, mind like a cantering horse; capricious; to have ants in one's pants; hyperactive

Also contained in

马六甲 、 马中锡 、 马哈拉斯特拉 、 司马曜 、 马克龙 、 司马奕 、 马布多 、 马草夼村 、 马戛尔尼使团 、 马拉博 、 司马光 、 马耳他 、 托马斯·哈代 、 马边 、 马尼拉 、 马建忠 、 司马衷 、 马邑之谋 、 康马 、 哑曷啰哑曷啰马麻蔼由而伞塔啰尼

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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: 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 马牛 (馬牛) 馬牛其風 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 費誓 Zhou Shu - Speech at Bi — count: 3