Anyone know the pinyin for 3 马 stacked.

[easternodyssey]

Yesterday the Peoples Daily posted 10 internet memes, according to the article if you are able to recognize 5 of them, you can be considered a master of Chinese. Anyway I was quick to download them as handy memes for future reference, when I get arount to studying these characters. http://english.people.com.cn/n/2014/0717/c90782-8756977.html

 

Nonetheless, one of these meme's show 3 马 stacked on top of one another, listing the pinyin as biāo http://english.people.com.cn/n/2014/0717/c90782-8756977-6.html. This character doesn't show up in Google input for the pinyin given, so I'm assuming they made a mistake.

[shuoshuo]

It comes up as biāo 骉 on my Mac's Chinese character input.

[Shelley]

猋    骉

 

Interesting, I get the choice of the two above both first tone.

 

The first one is biao1 - whirlwind and the second is biao1 - a horde of horses  which makes sense.

 

I would think a horde of horses could be like a whirlwind as they race by

 

Pleco gives a definition for the first one (Cantonese) running quickly. makes even more sense.

 

I don't think I will forget either of these from now on.

[MPhillips]

猋 (biao1) meaning "whirlwind" is generally written 飇 or 飆（two other versions of this character have the three 犬 replaced by three 火 whether to the right or left of ”wind”）and isn't terribly uncommon. In the Taiwanese press I was exposed to 飆車 appeared to mean "to drag-race", although this site's dict. says "to go for a joy-ride" which sounds less nefarious. In the Taiwan 飆車 incidents I read about people were killing themselves by racing side-by-side(although probably some of the time 飆車 refers to the less dangerous "going for a joy-ride").

[Melanie1989]

骉 Yup, the pinyin's definitely right. Three 马's together. Biao. But it is right on the opposite end on my laptop.

[Lugubert]

You could also try to stack them horizontally, like Ma Cheng