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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
Madrid, capital of Spain
campstool / folding stool (with fabric stretched across the top to sit on)
Muscat, capital of Oman
toilet brush
barn lantern / kerosene lamp
Malabo, capital of Equatorial Guinea
Mali (Tw)
Maxim machine gun
Malmo (Malmo city, of Sweden)
toilet plunger
stirrup
(loanword) massage
Malacca or Melaka (town and state in Malaysia), also strait between Malaysia and Sumatra
to be buried in a horse hide (idiom) / to give one's life on the battlefield
Majuro, capital of Marshall Islands
Ma Lianliang (1901-1966), Beijing opera star, one of the Four great beards 四大鬚生|四大须生
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835-1910), US writer, novelist and humorist, author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 哈克貝利·芬歷險記|哈克贝利·芬历险记
toilet plunger
Matsu Islands
circus
HSK 7-9
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), American clergyman and civil rights activist
saber / cavalry sword
Persian silk tree (Albizia julibrissin) / tree rhododendron (Rhododendron delavayi)
horse roundworm / parascaris equorum
Malaysian Malay (the official variety of Malay spoken in Malaysia)
Mariana Islands in the Pacific
marathon race
Martin (name)
(Chinese chess) moving the cannon after moving the horse away / (fig.) a useless action or comment; sth done after it's too late
HSK 7-9
the cutin skin of a horse's hoof / horseshoe
chamber pot / wooden pan used as toilet / toilet bowl
HSK 7-9
Marxism
Ma Ying-jeou (1950-), Taiwanese Kuomintang politician, Mayor of Taipei 1998-2006, president of Republic of China 2008-2016
Malay person or people
(loanword) mozzarella
Martha (biblical name)
caper
potato
Maguan county in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture 文山壯族苗族自治州|文山壮族苗族自治州, Yunnan
horsepower
HSK 7-9
(loanword) marathon
circus
Martin Luther (1483-1546), key figure of the Protestant Reformation
(loanword) macaron, French pastry with a soft filling sandwiched between the meringue-based cookie shells
Malpighian tubule system (in the insect digestive tract etc)
Mars (Roman God of War)
careless / sloppy / negligent / skimpy
HSK 7-9
Mahathir bin Mohamad (1925-), Malaysian politician, prime minister 1981-2003 and 2018-2020
marker (loanword) / felt marker
Sima Xiangru is meticulous and Mei Gao is fast (idiom) / to each his good points
Maas or Meuse River, Western Europe
Robert Morrison (1782-1834), Presbyterian minister, translator, and the London Missionary Society's first missionary to China
Marat (name) / Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793), Swiss scientist and physician
intersection (of roads)
to win instant success (idiom)
Maximilian or Maximilien (name)
Marco Polo (1254–c. 1324), Venetian trader and explorer who traveled the Silk road to China, author of Il Milione (Travels of Marco Polo)
Marxist philosophy
Earl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission to Qing China in 1793 / Paul McCartney, former Beatle
Diego Maradona (1960–2020), Argentine footballer
Malvinas Islands (also known as Falkland Islands)
(neologism c. 2013) (coll.) vertical groove visible on either side of the belly in a person with well-toned abs
La Marseillaise
mashed potato
Managua, capital of Nicaragua
henchman / gang member
Malay Peninsula
Marx (name) / Karl Marx (1818-1883), German revolutionary, economist and historian
lackey / errand boy / lit. runner before a carriage
horse hindquarters / flattery / boot-licking
caravan of horses carrying goods
Marcuse (philosopher)
Marrakech (city in Morocco)
Martinique (French Caribbean island)
Malta
Madagascar
young horse (colt or filly)
monkey (dialect) / little monkey (affectionate term for children, subordinates)
Max Planck (1858-1947), German physicist who first postulated quantization of energy
Marx, Lenin and Mao
maraschino cherry
herd of horses
Madagascar
brown bear
horseshoe
(loanword) martini
Machu Picchu
Malaya
Marxism-Leninism
Massachusetts, US state
Mariana Islands in the Pacific
spur (on riding boots)
saddle-bag
horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus)
Malay language

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