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.

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

 * Full Braille representation


 * Computer encodings