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English definition hemp, jute, flax; sesame; Kangxi radical 200
Mandarin pronunciation(s), using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system ma2 ma1
Pronunciation(s) and frequencies according to 現代漢語頻率詞典 <Xiandai Hanyu Pinlu Cidian> (XDHYPLCD) má(159) ma(11)
Tang dynasty pronunciation(s), derived from or consistent with T'ang Poetic Vocabulary by Hugh M. Stimson, Far Eastern Publications, Yale Univ. 1976 *ma
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Jyutping romanization system maa4
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system ma4
Japanese (Kana) マ バ あさ
Japanese (Hepburn) asa
Sino-Japanese ma ba
Korean pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system ma
Hangul 마:0E
Vietnamese pronunciation(s) in Quốc ngữ ma
Semantic variants (x- or y-variants with similar or identical meaning)
Specialized semantic variants (x- or y-variants with similar or identical meaning only in certain contexts)
Unicode radical / stroke count + 0
Unicode total stroke count 11
Cangjie IJCC
Four corner code 0029.4
Expected to be known in Hong Kong school system primary grade 2
漢語大字典 <Hanyu Da Zidian> 'Great Chinese Character Dictionary' (in 8 Volumes). Hubei and Sichuan Dictionary Publishing Collectives, 1986-1990. ISBN: 7-5403-0030 2/H.16 volume 7, page 4723, character 1
漢語大字典 <Hanyu Da Zidian> has a radical break beginning at this character's position radical
volume 7, page 4723, character 1
KangXi dictionary, 7th edition published by Zhonghua Bookstore in Beijing, 1989 page 1515, position 1
Dae Jaweon (Korean) dictionary, first edition, published in Seoul by Samseong Publishing Co., Ltd., 1988 page 2044, position 29
Grammata Serica Recensa, Bernhard Karlgren, 1957 0017a
宋本廣韻 <Song Ben Guang Yun> Song Dynasty edition of the Guang Yun Rhyming Dictionary page 164, character 42
This represents the position(s) of the ideograph in the Soengmou San Zidin (商務新字典, New Commercial Press Character Dictionary) page 823, character 4 page 201, character 13
The Five Thousand Dictionary (Fenn's Chinese-English Pocket Dictionary) by Courtenay H. Fenn, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979 494D
page 326, position 5
Ten Thousand Characters: An Analytic Dictionary by G. Hugh Casey, S.J. Hong Kong: Kelley and Walsh, 1980 862
Chinese-English Dictionary by Robert H. Mathews, Cambrige: Harvard University Press, 1975 4303
A Practical Cantonese-English Dictionary by Sidney Lau, Hong Kong: The Government Printer, 1977 2043 2044
Roy T. Cowles, A Pocket Dictionary of Cantonese, Hong Kong: University Press, 1999 2556
Student's Cantonese-English Dictionary by Bernard F. Meyer and Theodore F. Wempe (3rd edition, 1947) 1728
常用字字形表 (二零零零年修訂本),香港: 香港教育學院, 2000, ISBN 962-949-040-4 4715
The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary by Andrew Nathaniel Nelson, Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1974 5390
PRC telegraph code 7802
Taiwan telegraph code 7802
Unicode code point (dec / hex): 40635 / 9EBB


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