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馭

yù

drive

Phonosemantic compound. 馬 represents the meaning and 又 represents the sound.

Components
馬 meaning component

馬  Meaning component

mǎ

  

horse

又 sound component

又  Sound component

yòu

  

(hand), again

Evolution

馭 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
馭 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
馭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
馭 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
馭 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

驭 (馭) 

yù

drive, ride; manage, control; variant of 御[yù]; to drive; to manage; to control

Most common words with 馭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

驾驭

to drive

驭

to drive

驭手

chariot driver

以一驭万

to control a key point is to be master of the situation (idiom)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ŋ](r)a-s

ngjoH

yù

drive a chariot


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.6178% of movies

3158th most common character in movies

3424th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

驭

Unicode

U+99AD

Shuowen

“御，使馬也。从彳，从卸。馭，古文御。从又，从馬。”


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