Ma (kana) - Stroke Order

Stroke Order

The hiragana ま is made with three strokes:

  1. An upper horizontal line from left to right.
  2. Another horizontal line going fom left to right under the first stroke.
  3. A vertical line from top to bottom, then a small loop towards the right, which then crosses the vertical line going to the left.

The katakana マ is made with two strokes:

  1. A horizontal line from left to right, accompanied with a diagonal line towards the bottom-right.
  2. A small line at the end of the diagonal line.

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