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Mythic Mandarin

马马虎虎 (mǎ ma hū hū): meaning and stroke order

马马虎虎 (mǎ ma hū hū) means careless, casual, vague, not so bad, so-so, tolerable, fair.

马马虎虎

Simplified
马马虎虎
Traditional
馬馬虎虎
Pinyin
mǎ ma hū hū

Stroke order of 马马虎虎

马

  • Mǎ surname Ma; abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]
  • mǎ horse; CL:匹[pi3]
  • 3 strokes
  • Traditional form: 馬

Stroke by stroke

马

  • Mǎ surname Ma; abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]
  • mǎ horse; CL:匹[pi3]
  • 3 strokes
  • Traditional form: 馬

Stroke by stroke

虎

  • hǔ tiger; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

虎

  • hǔ tiger; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 马马虎虎

  1. mǎ ma hū hū Traditional 馬馬虎虎
    • careless
    • casual
    • vague
    • not so bad
    • so-so
    • tolerable
    • fair

Radicals of the characters

马
Radical 马 (Kangxi radical 187) in its simplified form · 3 strokes
虎
Radical 虍 (Kangxi radical 141) · 8 strokes · built from 虍 and 几

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).