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Chinese surname · rank 296

麻

麻 is read as má.

Pinyin

má

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 麻

Basic meaning

hemp, jute, flax; sesame; Kangxi radical 200

Five element

Wood

Origin

Time: Spring-and-Autumn Qi Maying layer, Spring-and-Autumn Chu Ma fief/place layer, Qin Masui frontier layer, Song Baijiaxing rank 135 and Song Shandong-Jiangsu-Henan distribution, Ming Gansu-Shanxi-Hebei-Zhejiang-Anhui-Fujian-Henan distribution; Song textual or Bai Jia Xing layer, 960-1279 CE

Place: Qi state context; Chu Ma fief around Macheng, Hubei, and Da-Ma/Dangshan, Anhui variant; Masui frontier context; Shandong, Jiangsu, Henan, Gansu, Shanxi, Hebei, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Shaanxi, Guangxi, Jilin, and Shanggu commandery traditions

Origin note

Ma is read ma as a surname. One main source-backed layer is an ancestor-name tradition from Qi: the Spring-and-Autumn figure Maying, described by 23mofang as a retainer of Qing Feng under Duke Qing of Qi, is treated as the ancestor of a Jiang-surname Ma branch. A second layer is a Chu place or fief-name tradition: sources say a Chu noble or official held an estate at Ma, often identified with Macheng in Hubei, while Wikipedia also records a Da-Ma location identified with Dangshan in Anhui; descendants used the fief or place name as a surname. Wikipedia further notes a Masui frontier-people layer in Qin and later changed-surname branches among Hui, Zhuang, Tu, Mongol, Korean, and other communities. The page keeps these branches separate because the sources support multiple routes rather than one single founder.

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