Ma (kana)
ま, in hiragana, or マ in katakana, 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 |
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| Normal m- (ま行 ma-gyō) |
ma | ま | マ |
| maa mā, mah |
まあ, まぁ まー |
マア, マァ マー |
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| transliteration | ma | |||
| hiragana origin | 末 | |||
| katakana origin | 末 | |||
| spelling kana | マッチのマ Matchi no "ma" | |||
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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 | |||
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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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| Character | ま | マ | ﾏ | |||
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER MA | KATAKANA LETTER MA | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MA | |||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 12414 | U+307E | 12510 | U+30DE | 65423 | U+FF8F |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 190 | E3 81 BE | 227 131 158 | E3 83 9E | 239 190 143 | EF BE 8F |
| Numeric character reference | ま | ま | マ | マ | ﾏ | ﾏ |
| Shift JIS | 130 220 | 82 DC | 131 125 | 83 7D | 207 | CF |
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