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HSK
street / road / CL: 條|条
HSK 1
at once / right away / immediately / on horseback (i.e. by military force)
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *馬* | 馬* | *馬
horse / CL: / horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess / knight in Western chess
HSK 3
cart / chariot / carriage / buggy
HSK 6
lit. firing after the horse / fig. belated action / giving advice in hindsight
HSK 7-9
careless / sloppy / negligent / skimpy
HSK 7-9
chamber pot / wooden pan used as toilet / toilet bowl
HSK 7-9
lit. firing after the horse / fig. belated action / giving advice in hindsight
HSK 7-9
horsepower
HSK 7-9
circus
HSK 7-9
Marathi language of west India
Basay, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan / Maasai people of Kenya
the Maldives
young horse (colt or filly)
Massachusetts, US state
Republic of Macedonia (former Yugoslav republic)
Mallorca or Majorca (island of Spain)
Malacca or Melaka (town and state in Malaysia), also strait between Malaysia and Sumatra
Marxism
Earl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission to Qing China in 1793 / Paul McCartney, former Beatle
plunger for unblocking toilet
Emmanuel Macron (1977-), president of France from 2017
abbr. for Marx 馬克思|马克思, Engels 恩格斯, Lenin 列寧|列宁 and Stalin 斯大林
Ma Ying-jeou (1950-), Taiwanese Kuomintang politician, Mayor of Taipei 1998-2006, president of Republic of China 2008-2016
potato
Malawi
tinplate / tin (tin-coated steel)
Machu Picchu
(loanword) martini
Earl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission to Qing China in 1793 / Paul McCartney, former Beatle
Ma Liang (Three Kingdoms)
Maslow (surname) / Abraham Maslow (1908–1970), US psychologist
Málaga, Spain / Malaga city in Iranian East Azerbaijan
Matsu Islands off Fujian, administered by Taiwan
cavalry / caravan of horses carrying goods
Mali (Tw)
Marseille, city in south France / Basay, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Mark (name)
mark (monetary unit)
Malvinas Islands (also known as Falkland Islands)
Elon Musk (1971-), business magnate and co-founder of Tesla Motors
Malaysia
(loanword) motor
Marx (name) / Karl Marx (1818-1883), German revolutionary, economist and historian
Ma'anshan, prefecture-level city in Anhui Province 安徽省
spur (on riding boots)
Robert Morrison (1782-1834), Presbyterian minister, translator, and the London Missionary Society's first missionary to China
Mawei, a district of Fuzhou City 福州市, Fujian
ponytail (hairstyle) / horse's tail / slender fibers like horse's tail (applies to various plants)
Malaya / Malaysia
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *馬* | 馬* | *馬
surname Ma / abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚
Malta (Tw)
horse's head / same as 碼頭|码头, pier
(loanword) marathon
stopwatch
Madrid, capital of Spain
Mawangdui in Changsha, Hunan, a recent Han dynasty archaeological site
millipede
horse
the Maldives (Tw)
corset / sockpuppet (Internet slang) / vest (dialect)
mosaic (loanword) / pixelation
Marco Polo (1254–c. 1324), Venetian trader and explorer who traveled the Silk road to China, author of Il Milione (Travels of Marco Polo)
circus
horse's hoof / horseshoe / Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis or E. congesta)
(loanword) mug
Malé, capital of Maldives
equestrianism / horsemanship
horsewhip
Makung city in Penghu county 澎湖縣|澎湖县 (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan
ponytail
Mario (name)
Marx and Lenin
Malan military base and atomic test site in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
Malawi (Tw)
(Protestantism) Matthew
Horse-Face, one of the two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology
(metallurgy) martensite; martensitic
unrelenting / without stopping to rest
Maria (name) / Mary, mother of Jesus Christ
Maseru, capital of Lesotho
horse hindquarters / flattery / boot-licking
Mayotte, island between NW Madagascar and Mozambique
Malaya
calla / calla lily
Mach (name) / Ernst Mach (1838-1916), German physicist / Mach number (fluid mechanics)
Macun district of Jiaozuo city 焦作市, Henan
Maryland, US state
(loanword) massage
male's pee hole
careless / casual / vague / not so bad / so-so / tolerable / fair
Marlow (name)
sth one wishes to conceal / the cat (as in "let the cat out of the bag")
(martial arts) horse stance (with legs wide apart, as when riding a horse)
saddle
lackey / errand boy / lit. runner before a carriage
manger
stirrup
barn lantern / kerosene lamp

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