Measure word
- 匹 pǐ (bound form) matching; comparable to; (bound form) alone; single; one of a pair; classifier for horses, mules etc... attested
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 馬, the traditional character: 马 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 35 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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「我得买点新衣服了，」狄马想。
"I really need some new clothes," thought Dima.
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150个人参加了马拉松比赛。
One hundred and fifty people entered the marathon race.
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一位王子骑着白马到来了。
A prince arrived, riding a white horse.
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三十二名领奖学金的马达加斯加学生飞往中国。
Thirty-two Madagascan students who receive scholarship are flying to China.
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上马。
Get on the horse.
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为了避开警方的追捕，狄马只好在垃圾箱里过了一晚。
Hiding from the police, Dima spent the night in a dumpster.
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义大利的首都是罗马。
The capital of Italy is Rome.
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从马德里来的人都很怪。
People from Madrid are weird.