马
mǎMǎ HSK1

horse

马 (馬) mǎ frequency
horse noun

他在草原上骑马。

tā zài cǎo​yuán shàng qí mǎ.

He is riding a horse on the grassland.

knight noun
knight in Western chess

马在国际象棋中有着独特的移动路径。

mǎ zài guó​jì​xiàng​qí zhōng yǒu zhe dú​tè de yí​dòng lù​jìng.

The knight has a unique movement pattern in chess.

xiangqi horse noun
horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess

这一步走马可以攻击对方的炮。

zhèi yī bù zǒu​mǎ kě​yǐ gōng​jī duì​fāng de pào.

Moving the knight in this step can attack the opponent's cannon.

马 (馬) Mǎ
Ma proper name
surname Ma

马先生是这家公司的经理。

Mǎ xiān​sheng shì zhè jiā gōng​sī de jīng​lǐ.

Mr. Ma is the manager of this company.

Malaysia abbreviation
abbreviation for Malaysia (马来西亚 Mǎ​lái​xī​yà)

中马两国的经贸合作非常紧密。

Zhōng Mǎ liǎng guó de jīng​mào hé​zuò fēi​cháng jǐn​mì.

Economic and trade cooperation between China and Malaysia is very close.

Cross-References

Classifier

Frequency
Character
Written text
276th most common 805.0 per million
Movie subtitles
233rd most common 744.9 per million appears in 89% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
202.6 per million appears in 44% of films
Written text
171.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Traditional
馬
Strokes
3
Unicode
U+9A6C

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)