That’s actually caused by incorrect rendering: Manchu text should be written vertically, but Wikipedia seems to wrongly render it as horizontal text (at least for me).
On the other hand, the Chinese character 馬 does look very horse-like, and this isn’t a coincidence at all, since the character was designed that way.
On the other hand, the Chinese character 馬 does look very horse-like, and this isn’t a coincidence at all, since the character was designed that way.