The same name, spelled differently
A Chinese surname is a character, not a spelling. The Latin letters on a passport come from whichever dialect the name was written down from — so these are all 马.
- MaMandarin — mainland China, Taiwan
- BehSouthern Min (Hokkien and Teochew) — Malaysian Chinese communities
The character
Outside a name, 马 is an ordinary word meaning horse.
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 马
- Traditional
- 馬
- As a word
- mǎ
Words built from 马
The character does ordinary work in the language too. Each of these is a real word you can look up.