馬
うま · uma · JLPT N3 · noun
horse
🐎 uma echoes Chinese mǎ: the word likely arrived along with the horse
馬 began as a drawing of a horse: the upright strokes are the mane and the four dots at the bottom are the legs. In shogi, 馬 is also short for 竜馬 (ryūma), the promoted bishop.