Talk:mã

"Mã" is often said to mean "horse" when ma/mà/mả/mã/má/mạ is used as an example of tones in Vietnamese. However, this is one of the more obscure meanings of "mã", not unlike saying that "hydro-" means "water" in English. It does, but you wouldn't go somewhere and order a glass of "hydro-". – Minh Nguyễn &#x1f4ac; 23:28, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * A "only in compounds" context tag may be used in these cases, with the meaning still shown as normal, e.g., . It could be templatised. Wyang (talk) 08:31, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
 * That would go for almost any reading, though. I think it's better to direct readers to the character entries via, to reduce the overhead of maintaining Sino-Vietnamese reading sections. I just added a parameter for displaying a gloss, which helps in this case. – Minh Nguyễn &#x1f4ac; 08:17, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Apart from the gloss, I think putting derived terms under the respective characters would be clearer, as derivations become more important when senses are not used independently. Wyang (talk) 08:22, 5 January 2015 (UTC)


 * We'd have to list compounds in both scripts on the character pages then. Though someone looking for Bạch Mã might look first at bạch or mã but not be brave enough to venture into the land of CJKV character entries.  – Minh Nguyễn  &#x1f4ac; 19:40, 5 January 2015 (UTC)