ma
hiragana
japanese hiragana ma
katakana
japanese katakana ma
transliterationma
hiragana origin
katakana origin
Man'yōgana万 末 馬 麻 摩 磨 満 前 真 間 鬼
spelling kanaマッチのマ Matchi no "ma"
unicodeU+307E, U+30DE
braille⠵

Ma (hiragana: ま, katakana: マ) is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. The hiragana is made in three strokes, while the katakana in two. Both represent [ma].

Form Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal m-
(ま行 ma-gyō)
ma
maa
まあ, まぁ
まー
マア, マァ
マー

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing ま
Stroke order in writing ま
Stroke order in writing マ
Stroke order in writing マ
Stroke order in writing ま
Stroke order in writing ま

The hiragana ま is made with three strokes:

  1. An upper horizontal line from left to right.
  2. Another horizontal line going from left to right under the first stroke.
  3. A vertical line from top to bottom, then a small loop towards the left, which then crosses the vertical line going to the right.
Stroke order in writing マ
Stroke order in writing マ

The katakana マ is made with two strokes:

  1. A horizontal line from left to right, accompanied with a diagonal line towards the bottom-left.
  2. A small line at the end of the diagonal line.

Other communicative representations

  • Full Braille representation
ま / マ in Japanese Braille
ま / マ
ma
まあ / マー
Other kana based on Braille
みゃ / ミャ
mya
みゃあ / ミャー
myā
⠵ (braille pattern dots-1356) ⠵ (braille pattern dots-1356) ⠒ (braille pattern dots-25) ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4) ⠵ (braille pattern dots-1356) ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4) ⠵ (braille pattern dots-1356) ⠒ (braille pattern dots-25)
Character information
Preview
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER MA KATAKANA LETTER MA HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MA CIRCLED KATAKANA MA
Encodingsdecimalhexdechexdechexdechex
Unicode12414U+307E12510U+30DE65423U+FF8F13038U+32EE
UTF-8227 129 190E3 81 BE227 131 158E3 83 9E239 190 143EF BE 8F227 139 174E3 8B AE
Numeric character referenceままママママ㋮㋮
Shift JIS[1]130 22082 DC131 12583 7D207CF
EUC-JP[2]164 222A4 DE165 222A5 DE142 2078E CF
GB 18030[3]164 222A4 DE165 222A5 DE132 49 154 5184 31 9A 33
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5]170 222AA DE171 222AB DE
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6]198 226C6 E2199 118C7 76
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7]199 101C7 65199 218C7 DA

References

  1. Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  2. Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
  3. Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
  4. Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
  5. Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
  6. Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  7. van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
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