Chinese Character Wiki

駁

bó

varicolored

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

Components
馬 meaning component

馬  Meaning component

mǎ

  

horse

爻 sound component

爻  Sound component

yáo

  

diagrams for divination

Evolution

駁 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
駁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
駁 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

驳 (駁) 

bó

varicolored, variegated; mixed; contradict, argue; suddenly; variegated; heterogeneous; to refute; to contradict; to ship by barge; a barge; a lighter (ship)

Most common words with 駁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

驳回

to reject

反驳

to retort

驳

variegated

驳斥

to refute

辩驳

to dispute

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pˤrawk

paewk

bó

horse of mixed color


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.1418% of movies

2420th most common character in movies

2022nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

驳

Unicode

U+99C1

Shuowen

“駁，馬色不純。从馬，爻聲。”


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