used in 瑪瑙|玛瑙[ma3 nao3]

Mary (biblical name)

Maria (name)

Margaret (name)

margarita (cocktail)

Maya (civilization)

see 尼瑪縣|尼玛县[Ni2 ma3 Xian4]

(Internet slang) alternative for 你媽|你妈[ni3 ma1]; (transcription from Tibetan) the sun

Maria (name); St Mary

Walmart (retailer)

Maya peoples

Emma (name)

Mount Everest (from its Tibetan name, Chomolungma)

Madeleine (name)

madeleine (French cake)

see 瑪多縣|玛多县[Ma3 duo1 Xian4]

variant of 伽馬|伽马[ga1 ma3]

maca (Lepidium meyenii)

Maxine (name)

see 呼瑪縣|呼玛县[Hu1 ma3 Xian4]

Tamir (mother of Perez and Zerah)

(Tw) Weimar, Germany

Mani (god)

Malé, capital of Maldives (Tw)

see 瑪曲縣|玛曲县[Ma3 qu3 Xian4]

see 瑪沁縣|玛沁县[Ma3 qin4 Xian4]

cornelian (mineral); agate

Matthew; St Matthew the evangelist; less common variant of 馬太|马太[Ma3 tai4] (preferred by the Catholic Church)

(loanword) muffin

see 班瑪縣|班玛县[Ban1 ma3 Xian4]

Weimar, Germany

imam (Islam) (loanword)

Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), Jesuit missionary and translator in Ming China

Huma, a county in Daxing'anling Prefecture 大興安嶺地區|大兴安岭地区[Da4 xing1 an1 ling3 Di4 qu1], Heilongjiang

Kavalan, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan; old name of Yilan 宜蘭|宜兰[Yi2 lan2] County, Taiwan; Kavalan, a brand of single malt whisky from Taiwan

Tamar (name)

Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), British diplomat and sinologist, originator of the Wade-Giles Chinese romanization system

Nyima, a county in Nagqu City 那曲市[Na4 qu3 Shi4], Tibet

Parmesan

Sodom

Dodoma, capital of Tanzania (Tw)

shawarma, Middle Eastern sandwich wrap (loanword)

sachima, sweet (Manchu) pastry made of fried strips of dough coated with syrup, pressed together, then cut into blocks

shawarma, Middle Eastern sandwich wrap (loanword)

Fatimah (name)

(slang) Mary Sue (character type in fiction)

traditional Xinjiang sweet walnut cake

Mario (Nintendo video game character); also transcribed variously as 馬里奧|马里奥[Ma3 li3 ao4], 馬力歐|马力欧[Ma3 li4 ou1] etc

Madoi, a county in Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 果洛藏族自治州[Guo3 luo4 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai