Character · Nature
馬
うま umaまご magoちくば chikubaおうま o-uma
horse
Composition
Origin
A pictogram of a horse standing on its legs, mane streaming along the neck.
In the thoughts
- 馬子magopackhorse driver
- 竹馬chikubabamboo stilts
- お馬o-umahorse (honorific)
- 馬耳bajihorse's ears
Proverbs carrying this character
- 061 馬子にも衣装 Clothes dress up even a stable hand.
- 076 人間万事塞翁が馬 Everything in life is like the old man's horse.
- 147 馬が合う Getting along like rider and horse.
- 148 竹馬の友 Friends of the bamboo stilts.
- 164 雀の子そこのけそこのけお馬が通る Little sparrows, make way, make way! The horse is passing.
- 261 馬耳東風 Spring wind in a horse's ears.