| ma | |||
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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 [ma].
| Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
![]() Stroke order in writing ま  | 
![]() Stroke order in writing マ  | 

Stroke order in writing ま
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.
 

Stroke order in writing マ
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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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  | ||
| Preview | ま | マ | マ | ㋮ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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[1] | 130 220 | 82 DC | 131 125 | 83 7D | 207 | CF | ||
| EUC-JP[2] | 164 222 | A4 DE | 165 222 | A5 DE | 142 207 | 8E CF | ||
| GB 18030[3] | 164 222 | A4 DE | 165 222 | A5 DE | 132 49 154 51 | 84 31 9A 33 | ||
| EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5] | 170 222 | AA DE | 171 222 | AB DE | ||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6] | 198 226 | C6 E2 | 199 118 | C7 76 | ||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7] | 199 101 | C7 65 | 199 218 | C7 DA | ||||
References
- ↑ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "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) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
 - ↑ van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
 
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