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at once / right away / immediately / on horseback (i.e. by military force)
HSK 1
street / road / CL: 條|条
HSK 1
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  *马* | 马* | *马
horse / CL: / horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess / knight in Western chess
HSK 3
cart / chariot / carriage / buggy
HSK 6
chamber pot / wooden pan used as toilet / toilet bowl
HSK 7-9
dark horse / fig. unexpected winner
HSK 7-9
horsepower
HSK 7-9
magnificent army with thousands of men and horses (idiom); impressive display of manpower / all the King's horses and all the King's men
HSK 7-9
fine horse / steed
HSK 7-9
careless / sloppy / negligent / skimpy
HSK 7-9
lit. firing after the horse / fig. belated action / giving advice in hindsight
HSK 7-9
lit. firing after the horse / fig. belated action / giving advice in hindsight
HSK 7-9
circus
HSK 7-9
Hamas (radical Palestinian group)
Maria (name) / Mary, mother of Jesus Christ
Persian silk tree (Albizia julibrissin) / tree rhododendron (Rhododendron delavayi)
Homer, poet of ancient Greece
Elon Musk (1971-), founder and CEO of SpaceX, co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors
Mayon (volcano in Philippines)
Limassol, Cyprus / Lemesos
death during sexual intercourse
ponytail
horse thief / (old) group of horse-mounted bandits
three horses at the same trough (idiom, alluding to Sima Yi 司馬懿|司马懿 and his two sons); conspirators under the same roof
old horse sniffs the wind (idiom); fig. aged person with great aspirations
Real Madrid soccer team / abbr. for 皇家馬德里|皇家马德里
saddle-bag
full marathon (abbr. for 全程馬拉松|全程马拉松) / the whole of Malaysia
(fig.) (derog.) beer or other alcoholic drink (esp. cheap or poor-quality)
Malan military base and atomic test site in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
lit. single spear and horse (idiom) / fig. single-handed; unaccompanied
to be buried in a horse hide (idiom) / to give one's life on the battlefield
Mawei river through Fuzhou city
Martinique (French Caribbean island)
Sea of Marmara
old but still full of vitality (idiom)
Muscat, capital of Oman
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Italian Catholic priest in the Dominican Order, philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition
Marseille, city in south France / Basay, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
romanization
Malpighian tubule system (in the insect digestive tract etc)
Madagascar
Damascus, capital of Syria
(loanword) motor
riding boots
(loanword) marathon
Malaya / Malaysia
Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) virus
lit. the service of a dog or a horse (idiom) / fig. faithful service
Barack Obama (1961–), US Democrat politician, president 2009–2017
Paramaribo, capital of Suriname
corset / sockpuppet (Internet slang) / vest (dialect)
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
like a heavenly steed, soaring across the skies (idiom) / (of writing, calligraphy etc) bold and imaginative / unconstrained in style
(lit.) to exert one's horse / (fig.) war exploits / warhorse (abbr. for 汗血馬|汗血马)
mosaic (loanword) / pixelation
saber / cavalry sword
Marathi language of west India
Las Palmas, Spain
flush toilet
Maputo, capital of Mozambique
Alabama, US state
Roman law
(mythology) celestial horse / fine horse; Ferghana horse / (Western mythology) Pegasus
Mark (name)
mark (monetary unit)
the splits (in gymnastics, dance or martial arts)
Malaysia
potato
to ride a horse
Happy Valley (suburb of Hong Kong)
Yamaha
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基
Malaysia
BMW (car company)
precious horse
Thomas (male name)
puffball (mushroom in the division Basidiomycota)
(loanword) gamma (Greek letter Γ, γ)
Tsushima Island, between Japan and South Korea
Roman sandals / ankle-strap sandals
Rome, capital of Italy
horse's hoof / horseshoe / Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis or E. congesta)
(fig.) to stir up a hornet's nest
Maputo, capital of Mozambique (Tw)
Makung city in Penghu county 澎湖縣|澎湖县 (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan
Amazon
bamboo stick used as a toy horse
at once / immediately / promptly / swiftly
monkey (dialect) / little monkey (affectionate term for children, subordinates)
lantern with a carousel of paper horses rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节 / (fig.) revolving door; musical chairs (metaphor for people being shuffled around into different jobs)
intersection (of roads)
Yima, a county-level city in Sanmenxia City 三門峽市|三门峡市, Henan
Romania
to ride (a horse) / to go on horseback
Gospel according to St Matthew

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