Key facts
- Traditional chinese
- 馬
- Simplified chinese
- 马
- Hanyu pinyin
- mǎ
- Wade giles
- ma
- Ipa
- [ma ̀ ]
- Romanization
- mâ
- Yale romanization
- máah
- Jyutping
- maa5
- Hokkien poj
- má / bé
- Fuzhou buc
- mā
- Jian ou romanized
- mǎ
- 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.