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马

馬traditional

HSK 3#605 by frequencyradical 马

Mǎ["n","nr","b"]

horse; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess

Measure word: 匹

Examples

上马。

Get on the horse.

马吃草。

Horses eat grass.

Part of the HSK 3 word list.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.