Ma (kana)

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

ma
Hiragana Katakana
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
Braille

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:

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

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

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet	Wabun code
マッチのマ Matchi no "Ma"	▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ⓘ

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

• Computer encodings

Character information

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