Zi:马

马(F​馬) [mǎ] horse; 马​上 mǎshàng right away; (radical 187, 马​部)

One monosyllabic entry in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):

►¹mǎ ​马[​馬] {A} n. ①horse ②horse chess piece ③Surname

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: Wieger:137a; Karlgren:AD592; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:7.4539.2; Lindqvist:134; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:004.1.10; Wáng(1993):51; EDOC:0
►components: ​𢎘​一​
►Cantonese: mah/
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Unicode: U+9A6C
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