chěng
gallop horse
Phonosemantic compound. 馬 represents the meaning and 甹 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r̥]eŋʔ | trhjengX | chěng | gallop |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4028th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9A01 |
Shuowen | “騁,直馳也。从馬,甹聲。” |
Sources
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