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A disc bearing the horse character.
Also known as: Ma piece, Knight piece xiangqi, Xiangqi knight
The xiangqi horse, moving one point orthogonally then one diagonally, and blockable at the first point.
Related forms that are not treated as separate canonical symbols — see our variant rules.
Red horse (傌)
Red plays 傌 (mà) and black plays 馬 (mǎ). The two characters name the same horse, which moves and captures identically on either side — the glyph says whose piece it is, not what it does. The two are read differently — mà against mǎ — so a spoken move names the side as well as the piece.
Black horse (馬)
Red plays 傌 (mà) and black plays 馬 (mǎ). The two characters name the same horse, which moves and captures identically on either side — the glyph says whose piece it is, not what it does. The two are read differently — mà against mǎ — so a spoken move names the side as well as the piece.
A flat circle carrying a single glyph, one of the pair shared in form between the two sides.