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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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *馬* | 馬* | *馬
horse / CL: / horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess / knight in Western chess
HSK 3
cart / chariot / carriage / buggy
HSK 6
horsepower
HSK 7-9
careless / sloppy / negligent / skimpy
HSK 7-9
circus
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
lit. firing after the horse / fig. belated action / giving advice in hindsight
HSK 7-9
Malaysia
Málaga, Spain / Malaga city in Iranian East Azerbaijan
Malacca or Melaka (town and state in Malaysia), also strait between Malaysia and Sumatra
Marxism
Emmanuel Macron (1977-), president of France from 2017
Mawangdui in Changsha, Hunan, a recent Han dynasty archaeological site
potato
Malawi
Gospel according to St Matthew
Portulaca oleracea (common purslane)
Manila, capital of Philippines
Marshall Islands
(loanword) martini
Ma Liang (Three Kingdoms)
Matsu Islands off Fujian, administered by Taiwan
cavalry / caravan of horses carrying goods
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
motor (loanword)
Marx (name) / Karl Marx (1818-1883), German revolutionary, economist and historian
Ma'anshan, prefecture-level city in Anhui Province 安徽省
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)
Marat (name) / Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793), Swiss scientist and physician
Malmo (Malmo city, of Sweden)
Malaya / Malaysia
Mali
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
marathon (loanword)
Macedonia
Madrid, capital of Spain
millipede
horse
the Maldives (Tw)
corset / sockpuppet (Internet slang) / vest (dialect)
mosaic (loanword) / pixelation
Mali (Tw)
circus
Marco Polo (1254-c. 1324), Venetian trader and explorer who traveled the Silk road to China, author of Il Milione (Travels of Marco Polo)
horse's hoof / horseshoe / Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis or E. congesta)
mug (loanword)
equestrianism / horsemanship
horsewhip
Makung city in Penghu county 澎湖縣|澎湖县 (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan
the Maldives
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
Malta
spur (on riding boots)
Malawi (Tw)
Matthew (name)
Horse-Face, one of the two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology
unrelenting / without stopping to rest
Maria (name) / Mary, mother of Jesus Christ
Maseru, capital of Lesotho
horse hindquarters / flattery / boot-licking
polo
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
massage (loanword)
male's pee hole
careless / casual / vague / not so bad / so-so / tolerable / fair
Muscat, capital of Oman
Marlow (name)
Malé, capital of Maldives
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
sycophant; toady; bootlicker
lackey / errand boy / lit. runner before a carriage
manger
stirrup
Mallorca or Majorca (island of Spain)
barn lantern / kerosene lamp
groom / stable lad / horsekeeper / pimp / procurer
Malay person or people
Strait of Malacca
tinplate / tin (tin-coated steel)

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