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

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].

Stroke order

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.

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