Chinese Character Wiki

駟

sì

team of four horses

Four 四 horses 馬; 四 also provides the pronunciation

Components
馬 meaning component

馬  Meaning component

mǎ

  

horse

四 sound,meaning component

四  Sound Meaning component

sì

  

four

Evolution

駟 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
駟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
駟 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
駟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

驷 (駟) 

sì

team of four horses; team of 4 horses

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s.li[j]-s

sijH

sì

team of four horses


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5344th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

驷

Unicode

U+99DF

Shuowen

“駟，一乘也。从馬，四聲。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License