jū
colt
Phonosemantic compound. 馬 represents the meaning and 句 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 駒
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
colt | ||
young horse (colt or filly) | ||
a white steed flits past a crack (idiom); How time flies! | ||
fine horse | ||
brilliant young man |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.9771% of movies
3316th most common character in movies
3691st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+99D2 |
Shuowen | “駒，馬二歲曰駒，三歲曰駣。从馬，句聲。” |
Sources
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