Key facts
- Traditional chinese
- 馬
- Simplified chinese
- 马
- Hanyu pinyin
- mǎ
- Wade giles
- ma
- Ipa
- [ma ̀ ]
- Romanization
- mâ
- Yale romanization
- máah
- Jyutping
- maa5
- Hokkien poj
- má / bé
- Fuzhou buc
- mā
- Jian ou romanized
- mǎ
- Baxter 1992
- * mraʔ
- Baxter sagart 2014
- * mˤraʔ
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Zodiac horse, showing the mǎ (⾺) character for horse
The Horse (⾺) is the seventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. There is a long tradition of the Horse in Chinese mythology. Certain characteristics of the Horse nature are supposed to be typical of or to be associated with either a year of the Horse and its events, or in regard to the personality of someone born in such a year. Horse aspects can also enter by other chronomantic factors or measures, such as hourly. The year of the horse is associated with the Earthly Branch symbol 午.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Horse” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.