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馬

Horse
Stroke count: 10

Readings

On readingバ
Kun readingうま、ま

Meanings

  1. horseRtK
  1. horse racing
  2. promoted bishop
  3. knight (court card in mekuri karuta and unsun karuta)

Synonyms

ホース競馬

Homonyms

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Popular Usage

競馬

Radicals and components

Radical馬horse
Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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team of horses

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 2132

Compound words

自動車が馬車に取って変わった。ばしゃ
Automobiles replaced carriages.tatoeba
鳩山さんが競馬で妻子を養っていると言っています。けいば
Hatoyama says that he supports his family by gambling on horse racing.tatoeba
ダービー競馬の日は2週間後の水曜日だ。けいば
Derby Day is Wednesday fortnight.tatoeba
彼は母の助言を馬鹿にした。
He flouted his mother's advice.tatoeba
彼は文字どおりの馬鹿だ。
He is literally stupid.tatoeba
彼は分別があるからそんな馬鹿なことは言わない。
He has more sense than to say such a foolish thing.tatoeba
彼は部下と馬を引き連れ雪山を越え暑い谷へといった。
He led his men and horses over snowy mountains and down into hot valleys.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

群馬県へ行く
ぐんまけんへいくGoing to Gunma Prefecture.
馬は軽車両です
うまはけいしゃりょうですA horse is a light vehicle.
野次馬が一気に押し掛けてきた。
やじうまがいっきにおしかけてきた。The onlookers rushed in all at once.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

10 strokes

Horse. A horse: head with mane, body and four legs (灬).

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 馬

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step