Zi:馬
馬(S马) [mǎ] horse; 馬上 mǎshàng right away; (radical 187, 馬部); (HDZ:) 家畜之一…
One monosyllabic entry in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):
►¹mǎ 马[馬] {A} n. ①horse ②horse chess piece ③Surname
HDZ: 馬 : mǎ : 家畜之一…性温驯而善走, 能负重远行; (方言) 发怒时把脸拉长像马脸; 筹码 (cf. 碼); 大 (马蜂, 马勺); 骂; (易) 乾、震、坎之象 (☰☳☵) (䷀ 乾为马; ䷁ 坤: …利牝马之贞; ䷲ 震为马; ䷂ 屯: 乘马班如; ䷜ 坎为马); (量词) 堆 (cf. 碼); (地名) ((古县名); (古郡名)); (姓)
(Explanation from the entry for the simple form 马:) The simple-form character 马 (3 strokes) is an abbrev. of the full-form character 馬 (10 strokes), replacing the full-form component 灬 (4 strokes) with 一 (1 stroke), and replacing (6 strokes) with a shape like 𢎘 (2 strokes).
Note: The full-form character 馬 was formerly abbrev. 𫠉 (7 strokes), an intermediary form on the way to the simple form 马.
The Shuōwén Seal form of 马/馬() mǎ ‘horse’ is said to derive from old pictographs depicting the animal's head, mane, tail, and four feet; formerly wr. 𢒠(), and also 𢒗(), with 3 stokes 彡() for the horse's mane (马鬃), and the body wr. like 易().
Older graphs associated with 马/馬() depict the head (sometimes with eye), mane, feet, and tail, a bit more realistically than the Seal.
In the full form 馬 the first three horizontal strokes correspond to the ‘mane’ strokes in the Seal; the four dots 灬 correspond to the ‘four feet’ strokes in the Seal; the ‘tail’ hooks down to the right.
In the modern simple form 马 the full-form feet 灬 are abbrev. to a single stroke 一, and the rest is abbrev. to a two-stroke shape like 𢎘.
Compare: 鸟/鳥() niǎo ‘bird’; 易() yì ‘change’; 象(𧰼) xiàng ‘elephant/ivory’.
Compare: 码/碼 mǎ ‘chip/chit/number’ (筹码), formerly wr. 籌馬 (礼记).
►references: Karlgren:GSR40a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:7.4539.1; Mathews:4310; Guǎngyùn:307.28; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:1433.01; EDOC:1
►components: 灬
►Cantonese: mah/
<cdl char='馬' uni='99AC' points='0,4 128,128'>
<comp char='' uni='E0C9' points='30,0 128,128' />
<comp char='灬' uni='706C' points='0,83 100,108' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='' uni='E0C9' points='30,4 124,128' radical='K0'>
<stroke type='h' points='0,0 115,0' head='cut' />
<stroke type='s' points='0,0 0,68' />
<stroke type='h' points='0,24 102,24' head='cut' />
<stroke type='h' points='0,45 102,45' head='cut' />
<stroke type='s' points='50,0 50,68' head='cut' tail='cut' />
<stroke type='hzg' points='0,68 128,68 111,128 84,120' head='cut' />
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</cdl>
<cdl char='灬' uni='706C' points='0,80 128,112'>
<stroke type='d' points='17,0 0,128' />
<stroke type='d' points='40,0 52,128' />
<stroke type='d' points='76,0 88,128' />
<stroke type='d' points='112,0 128,128' />
</cdl>
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Unicode: U+99AC
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