# 走馬
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zǒumǎ
    (Zhuyin): ㄗㄡˇ ㄇㄚˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zau$^2$ maa$^5$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): cháu-bé
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zǒumǎ [Phonetic: zóumǎ]
*** Zhuyin: ㄗㄡˇ ㄇㄚˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: zǒumǎ
*** Wade–Giles: tsou$^3$-ma$^3$
*** Yale: dzǒu-mǎ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzooumaa
*** Palladius: цзоума (czouma)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡soʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zau$^2$ maa$^5$
*** Yale: jáu máh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzau$^2$ maa$^5$
*** Guangdong Romanization: zeo$^2$ ma$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sɐu̯³⁵ maː¹³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese, Jinjiang)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cháu-bé
*** Tâi-lô: tsáu-bé
*** Phofsit Daibuun: zaw'bea
*** IPA (Jinjiang): /t͡sau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ be⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /t͡sau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ be⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sau⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ be⁴¹/

### Verb

走馬
* (literary) to ride a horse; to go (fast) on horseback; to gallop away
    Synonym: 跑馬 / 跑马 (pǎomǎ)
    Near-synonym: 騎馬 / 骑马 (qímǎ)
    From: c. early 800s, Li He (李賀),《天上謠》, translated by J. D. Frodsham, 1970. ​This line was annotated by the translator: * Gods and Immortals can afford to be careless of the passing of time. To them whole epochs during which land rises out of the sea and sinks back beneath it again are as nothing.
    Dōng zhǐ Xīhé néng zǒumǎ, hǎi chén xīn shēng shíshān xià. [Pinyin]
    She points to Hsi Ho in the eastern sky, deftly urging his steeds, ​While sea and land rise again and again ​below mountains of stone*.
    From: c. 1555, Zong Chen（宗臣）,《報劉一丈書》, translated by Victor H. Mair
    Zǒumǎ dǐ mén, ménzhě nù yuē: “Wéi shéi?” Zé yuē: “Zuórì zhī kè lái.” [Pinyin]
    As he races his horse up to the gate, the gatekeeper angrily asks, “Who are you?,” to which he responds, “The guest who came yesterday.”

#### Derived terms

* 下坡走馬 / 下坡走马
* 帶牌走馬 / 带牌走马
* 走馬上任 / 走马上任 (zǒumǎshàngrèn)
* 走馬之任 / 走马之任
* 走馬到任 / 走马到任
* 走馬嶺 / 走马岭 (Zǒumǎlǐng)
* 走馬換將 / 走马换将
* 走馬燈 / 走马灯 (zǒumǎdēng)
* 走馬看花 / 走马看花 (zǒumǎkànhuā)
* 走馬觀花 / 走马观花 (zǒumǎguānhuā)
* 走馬赴任 / 走马赴任
* 走馬章臺 / 走马章台
* 走馬風 / 走马风
* 飛鷹走馬 / 飞鹰走马

### Noun

走馬
* (literary) horse that gallops well
    From: c. early 800s, Li He (李賀),《夢天》, translated by J. D. Frodsham, 1970. ​This line also annotated by the translator: * The Three Islands of the Immortals endure throughout geological epochs of time, while the seas cover what was once land and then recede again.
    Huángchénqīngshuǐ sānshān xià, gēngbiàn qiānnián rú zǒumǎ. [Pinyin]
    Now yellow dust, now clear water, below the Three Hills*. Sudden the changes of a thousand years as a galloping horse.
* (Jinjiang Hokkien) The Chinese character component 辶.

#### Synonyms

| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 走之 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 走之兒 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 走之旁, 走之底, 辵字旁 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Harbin | 走之兒 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 走之兒 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 走字之兒, 走之兒 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 走絲兒 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Wanrong | 坐轎兒 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Wanrong (Ronghe) | 坐車兒 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 車車兒 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xining | 走之兒 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xuzhou | 走之兒, 走之兒旁兒, 走之兒旁 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Yinchuan | 走之旁 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Lanzhou | 走之兒 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Ürümqi | 走車兒 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 走之底, 走之旁 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 之捺 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guiyang | 走之 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guilin | 走之 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Liuzhou | 走之邊, 走之旁, 過橋底, 過橋, 坐船底 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Nanjing | 走之 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 走之 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Huanggang | 托旁兒 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 撐艇仔, 撐艇 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 撐艇仔, 艇仔邊 |
| Cantonese | Macau | 撐艇仔 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Panyu) | 撐艇仔 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu) | 撐艇仔 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Conghua) | 打紙鷂 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Zengcheng) | 打之腰 |
| Cantonese | Foshan | 撐艇仔 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai) | 裝隻船 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Shunde) | 撐艇仔 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Sanshui) | 撐屎艇 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming) | 撐艇 |
| Cantonese | Zhongshan (Shiqi) | 撐艇仔 |
| Cantonese | Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou) | 撐艇仔 |
| Cantonese | Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka) | 船仔旁 |
| Cantonese | Zhuhai (Doumen) | 撐船仔 |
| Cantonese | Jiangmen (Baisha) | 走字邊 |
| Cantonese | Jiangmen (Xinhui) | 撐船仔 |
| Cantonese | Taishan | 船仔邊 |
| Cantonese | Kaiping (Chikan) | 船仔旁 |
| Cantonese | Enping (Niujiang) | 走之旁 |
| Cantonese | Heshan (Yayao) | 撐艇仔 |
| Cantonese | Dongguan | 坐船邊, 撐船邊 |
| Cantonese | Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an) | 走之旁 |
| Cantonese | Shaoguan | 撐艇仔, 走之旁 |
| Cantonese | Yunfu | 走之底 |
| Cantonese | Xinyi | 走之底 |
| Cantonese | Lianjiang | 走之底 |
| Cantonese | Nanning | 坐船底 |
| Cantonese | Wuzhou | 撐船底 |
| Cantonese | Yulin | 走之旁 |
| Cantonese | Hepu (Lianzhou) | 走之 |
| Gan | Lichuan | 點走之 |
| Gan | Pingxiang | 走之 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 坐船, 走鳥旁 |
| Hakka | Huizhou (Huicheng; Bendihua) | 拖船 |
| Hakka | Dongguan (Qingxi) | 走之旁 |
| Hakka | Shenzhen (Shatoujiao) | 走之邊 |
| Hakka | Zhongshan (Wuguishan) | 走之邊, 拖船仔 |
| Hakka | Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui) | 走之旁 |
| Hakka | Guangzhou (Lütian, Conghua) | 走鳥底 |
| Hakka | Wuping | 走腰 |
| Hakka | Yudu | 走鳥 |
| Hakka | Luchuan (Daqiao) | 走之底 |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 走之旁, 走之 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 坐車旁 |
| Jin | Pingyao | 推車車 |
| Jin | Xinzhou | 坐車車兒 |
| Jin | Hohhot | 走字, 坐車車, 之車旁 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 走之底 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 走馬道 |
| Southern Min | Jinjiang | 走馬 |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 走馬路仔 |
| Southern Min | Pingnan (Shangdu) | 走之旁 |
| Southern Min | Shantou | 坐船 |
| Southern Min | Leizhou | 坐船爿 |
| Southern Min | Haikou | 走字旁 |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 走船底, 走字底, 坐船底 |
| Northern Pinghua | Guilin (Dahe) | 走之, 走之船, 走船底 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 牽走之, 曲腳之 |
| Wu | Shanghai (Chongming) | 欠走之 |
| Wu | Suzhou | 走之 |
| Wu | Danyang | 走捺 |
| Wu | Hangzhou | 走之旁 |
| Wu | Ningbo | 走之旁 |
| Wu | Wenzhou | 走之爿邊 |
| Wu | Jinhua | 走之 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 走之邊 |
| Xiang | Loudi | 走之 |
| Xiang | Quanzhou | 走之旁 |

### Proper noun

走馬
* 走马镇
* (～鎮) Zouma (a town in Hefeng, Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China)