Chinese symbol for “ponytail”
马尾
mǎ wěi
Traditional: 馬尾
ponytail (hairstyle); horse's tail; slender fibers like horse's tail (applies to various plants)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for ponytail is 马尾 (mǎ wěi), defined as: ponytail (hairstyle); horse's tail; slender fibers like horse's tail (applies to various plants).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “ponytail”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 马尾.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 马上 (馬上) | mǎ shàng | at once; right away |
| 马克 (馬克) | mǎ kè | mark (monetary unit) |
| 马路 (馬路) | mǎ lù | street; road |
| 人马 (人馬) | rén mǎ | men and horses; troops |
| 骑马 (騎馬) | qí mǎ | to ride a horse |
| 宝马 (寶馬) | bǎo mǎ | precious horse |
| 尾巴 | wěi ba | tail; colloquial pr. [yi3 ba5] |
| 结尾 (結尾) | jié wěi | ending; coda |
See also: Japanese symbol for “ponytail”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.