Radical 187 or radical horse (馬部) meaning "horse" is one of the 8 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 10 strokes.

← 186 Radical 187 (U 2FBA) 188 →
(U 99AC) "horse"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:
Bopomofo:ㄇㄚˇ
Wade–Giles:ma3
Cantonese Yale:ma5
Jyutping:maa5
Japanese Kana:バ ba / マ ma / メ me (on'yomi)
うま uma (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:마 ma
Hán-Việt:
Names
Chinese name(s):(Left) 馬字旁/马字旁 mǎzìpáng
(Bottom) 馬字底/马字底 mǎzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):馬/うま uma
(Left) 馬偏/うまへん umahen
Hangul:말 mal
Stroke order animation
Stroke order in Hong Kong
Stroke order of the simplified form

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 472 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

, the simplified form of , is the 58th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while the traditional form is listed as its associated indexing component. The simplified form is derived from the cursive script form of .

Evolution

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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters (馬) Characters (马)
0 SC (=馬)
2 SC (=馭)
3 SC (=馱) SC (=馴) SC (=馳)
4 馿 (=驢) (=馱) JP (=驛) JP (=驅) (=馼) SC (=驅) SC (=馹) SC (=駁) SC (=驢)
5 (=驅) SC (=駔) SC (=駛) SC (=駟) SC (=駙) SC (=駒) SC (=騶) SC (=駐) SC (=駝) SC (=駑) SC (=駕) 驿SC (=驛) SC (=駘)
6 (= -> ) SC (=驍) SC (= -> ) SC (=駰) SC (=驕) SC (=驊) SC (=駱) SC (=駭) SC (=駢) SC (=驫)
7 (=騮) 駿 SC (=驪) SC (=騁) SC (=驗) SC (=騂) SC (=駸) SC (=駿)
8 (=駢) (=騣) (=驗) JP (=騷) JP (=驗) SC (=騏) SC (=騎) SC (=騍) SC (=騅) (=騌) SC (=驌) SC (=驂)
9 (=騙) JP (=驒) SC (=騙) SC (=騭) SC (=騤) SC (=騷) SC (=騖)
10 SC (=驁) SC (=騮) SC (=騫) SC (=騸)
11 (=騏) 騿 (=騺) SC (=驃) SC (=騾) SC (=驄)
12 (=騮) SC (=驏)
13 (=騾)
14 SC (=驟)
16 SC (=驥)
17 SC (=驦) SC (=驤)
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Sinogram

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The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a second grade kanji[1]


References

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  1. ^ a b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

Literature

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  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
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