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sign of Chinese zodiac

Key facts

Traditional chinese
Simplified chinese
Hanyu pinyin
Wade giles
ma
Ipa
[ma ̀ ]
Romanization
Yale romanization
máah
Jyutping
maa5
Hokkien poj
má / bé
Fuzhou buc
Jian ou romanized
Baxter 1992
* mraʔ
Baxter sagart 2014
* mˤraʔ

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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.