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sign of Chinese zodiac

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Traditional chinese
Simplified chinese
Hanyu pinyin
Wade giles
ma
Ipa
[ma ̀ ]
Romanization
Yale romanization
máah
Jyutping
maa5
Hokkien poj
má / bé
Fuzhou buc
Jian ou romanized
Baxter 1992
* mraʔ
Baxter sagart 2014
* mˤraʔ

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Zodiac horse, showing the mǎ (⾺) character for horse

The Horse (⾺) is the seventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. There is a long tradition of the Horse in Chinese mythology. Certain characteristics of the Horse nature are supposed to be typical of or to be associated with either a year of the Horse and its events, or in regard to the personality of someone born in such a year. Horse aspects can also enter by other chronomantic factors or measures, such as hourly. The year of the horse is associated with the Earthly Branch symbol 午.

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