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| transliteration | ma | ||
| hiragana origin | 末 | ||
| katakana origin | 末 | ||
| Man'yōgana | 万 末 馬 麻 摩 磨 満 前 真 間 鬼 | ||
| spelling kana | マッチのマ Matchi no "ma" | ||
| unicode | U+307E, U+30DE | ||
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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 .
| Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
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| Normal m- (ま行 ma-gyō) |
ma | ま | マ |
| maa mā |
まあ, まぁ まー |
マア, マァ マー |
Stroke order
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The hiragana ま is made with three strokes:
- An upper horizontal line from left to right.
- Another horizontal line going from left to right under the first stroke.
- A vertical line from top to bottom, then a small loop towards the left, which then crosses the vertical line going to the right.
The katakana マ is made with two strokes:
- A horizontal line from left to right, accompanied with a diagonal line towards the bottom-left.
- A small line at the end of the diagonal line.
Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| マッチのマ Matchi no "Ma" |
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| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-1356 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
| ま / マ in Japanese Braille | |||
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| ま / マ ma |
まあ / マー mā |
Other kana based on Braille ま | |
| みゃ / ミャ mya |
みゃあ / ミャー myā | ||
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| Preview | ま | マ | ﾏ | ㋮ | ||||
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER MA | KATAKANA LETTER MA | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MA | CIRCLED KATAKANA MA | ||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12414 | U+307E | 12510 | U+30DE | 65423 | U+FF8F | 13038 | U+32EE |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 190 | E3 81 BE | 227 131 158 | E3 83 9E | 239 190 143 | EF BE 8F | 227 139 174 | E3 8B AE |
| Numeric character reference | ま |
ま |
マ |
マ |
ﾏ |
ﾏ |
㋮ |
㋮ |
| Shift JIS | 130 220 | 82 DC | 131 125 | 83 7D | 207 | CF | ||
| EUC-JP | 164 222 | A4 DE | 165 222 | A5 DE | 142 207 | 8E CF | ||
| GB 18030 | 164 222 | A4 DE | 165 222 | A5 DE | 132 49 154 51 | 84 31 9A 33 | ||
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 222 | AA DE | 171 222 | AB DE | ||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 226 | C6 E2 | 199 118 | C7 76 | ||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 199 101 | C7 65 | 199 218 | C7 DA | ||||
References
- Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) . "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
- Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
- Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
- Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
- Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
- Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) . "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
- van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.