Ma (kana)

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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
japanese hiragana ma
katakana
japanese katakana ma
transliterationma
hiragana origin
katakana origin
Man'yōgana万 末 馬 麻 摩 磨 満 前 真 間 鬼
spelling kanaマッチのマ Matchi no "ma"
unicodeU+307E, U+30DE
braille⠵
Form Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal m-
(ま行 ma-gyō)
ma
maa
まあ, まぁ
まー
マア, マァ
マー

Stroke order

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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

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  • Full Braille representation
ま / マ in Japanese Braille
ま / マ
ma
まあ / マー
Other kana based on Braille
みゃ / ミャ
mya
みゃあ / ミャー
myā
           
Character information
Preview
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[1] 130 220 82 DC 131 125 83 7D 207 CF
EUC-JP[2] 164 222 A4 DE 165 222 A5 DE 142 207 8E CF
GB 18030[3] 164 222 A4 DE 165 222 A5 DE 132 49 154 51 84 31 9A 33
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5] 170 222 AA DE 171 222 AB DE
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6] 198 226 C6 E2 199 118 C7 76
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7] 199 101 C7 65 199 218 C7 DA

References

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  1. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  2. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
  3. ^ Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
  4. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
  5. ^ Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
  6. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  7. ^ van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.