CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search "Bushu" redirects here. For the former Japanese province , see Musashi Province . In the Chinese character 媽 mā "mother", the left part is the radical 女 nǚ "female". In this case the radical is the semantic component of a phono-semantic compound, while the right part, 馬 mǎ "horse", is the phonetic component. Chinese characters Scripts Precursors Oracle-bone Bronze Seal ( bird-worm large small ) Clerical Regular Semi-cursive Cursive Type styles Imitation Song Ming Sans-serif Properties Strokes ( order ) Radicals Classification Variants Character-form standards Kangxi Dictionary Xin Zixing General Standard Chinese Characters (PRC) Graphemes of Commonly-used Chinese Characters (Hong Kong) Standard Typefaces for C...