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Horse Tail 馬 Absurd Drops Top Feathers Stroke

Kanji
Onyomi
Kunyomi うま、うま-、ま
Nanori た, ばん, め, も
English horse
Examples 馬(うま): (1) horse (2) promoted bishop (shogi)
競馬(けいば): horse racing
馬鹿(ばか): (1) fool; idiot (2) trivial matter; folly; absurdity (3) foolish; stupid; dull; absurd; ridiculous (4) surf clam
馬鹿らしい(ばからしい): absurd
馬鹿馬鹿しい(ばかばかしい): absurd; ridiculous; silly; ludicrous; nonsensical; asinine; foolish
JLPT Level 3
Jouyou Grade 2
Frequency 639
Components 火: fire
Number of Strokes 10
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 187
Radical Strokes 10
Radical Reading うま・うまへん
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 象形 Pictographic
Keyword horse
Koohii Story 1 Turkey with the drops at the top removed and tail feathers added (this matches stroke order and there are the tail feathers already, why not have the whole bird). If you take the two drops of 隹 as wings, then horses are like turkeys, but have no wings and have more prominent tail "feathers". Both are actually supposed to be pictographs, though.
Koohii Story 2 The top part is half a comb (see frame 1920) with an extra vertical stroke to account for a sturdier version used to comb a horse mane. As a primitive I used the theme of the Trojan Horse. Not the modern computer viruses, but the large wooden horse which led to the demise of Troy and of the Trojans. Either its size (much greater than a live horse), or the fact that it conceals things into its belly, will set it appart from the horse primitive that came in frame 568 ("noon").

Tags: jlpt.n3, grade2, kanjifreq501-750, kanji_nature_animal, kanji_human.activities_zodiac

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