chěng

gallop horse

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
馬 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

horse

甹 sound component

  Sound component

pīng

  

chivalrous knight

Evolution

騁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
騁 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
騁 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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chěng

gallop horse; hasten, hurry; to hasten; to run; to open up; to gallop

Most common words with 騁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

驰骋

to gallop

to run

纵横驰骋

to criss-cross

Historical 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。”


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