Ma (kana)

Ma (hiragana: ま, katakana: マ) is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. The hiragana is made in three strokes, while the katakana in two. Both represent [ma].

ma
hiragana katakana
transliteration	ma
hiragana origin	末
katakana origin	末
Man'yōgana	万 末 馬 麻 摩 磨 満 前 真 間 鬼
spelling kana	マッチのマ Matchi no "ma"
unicode	U+307E, U+30DE
braille

Form	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal m- (ま行 ma-gyō)	ma	ま	マ
	maa mā	まあ, まぁ まー	マア, マァ マー

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing ま

Stroke order in writing マ

Stroke order in writing ま

The hiragana ま is made with three strokes:

1. An upper horizontal line from left to right.
2. Another horizontal line going from left to right under the first stroke.
3. A vertical line from top to bottom, then a small loop towards the left, which then crosses the vertical line going to the right.

Stroke order in writing マ

The katakana マ is made with two strokes:

1. A horizontal line from left to right, accompanied with a diagonal line towards the bottom-left.
2. A small line at the end of the diagonal line.

Other communicative representations

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet	Wabun code
マッチのマ Matchi no "Ma"

Japanese Navy Signal Flag	Japanese semaphore	Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)	Braille dots-1356 Japanese Braille

• Full Braille representation

ま / マ in Japanese Braille
ま / マ ma	まあ / マー mā	Other kana based on Braille ま
		みゃ / ミャ mya	みゃあ / ミャー myā

• Computer encodings

Character information

Preview	ま		マ		ﾏ		㋮
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER MA		KATAKANA LETTER MA		HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MA		CIRCLED KATAKANA MA
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	12414	U+307E	12510	U+30DE	65423	U+FF8F	13038	U+32EE
UTF-8	227 129 190	E3 81 BE	227 131 158	E3 83 9E	239 190 143	EF BE 8F	227 139 174	E3 8B AE
Numeric character reference	ま	ま	マ	マ	ﾏ	ﾏ	㋮	㋮
Shift JIS	130 220	82 DC	131 125	83 7D	207	CF
EUC-JP	164 222	A4 DE	165 222	A5 DE	142 207	8E CF
GB 18030	164 222	A4 DE	165 222	A5 DE	132 49 154 51	84 31 9A 33
EUC-KR / UHC	170 222	AA DE	171 222	AB DE
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)	198 226	C6 E2	199 118	C7 76
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)	199 101	C7 65	199 218	C7 DA