jià
to drive
Phonosemantic compound. 馬 represents the meaning and 加 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 駕
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to drive | ||
to harness | ||
to drive a vehicle | ||
pilot | ||
driver's license |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤraj-s | kaeH | jià | hitch horses to a chariot |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 26.1413% of movies
1258th most common character in movies
1567th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+99D5 |
Shuowen | “駕,馬在軛中。从馬,加聲。,籀文駕。” |
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