Chinese Character Wiki

騖

wù

gallop

A horse 馬 working hard 敄; 敄 also provides the pronunciation

Components
敄 sound,meaning component

敄  Sound Meaning component

wù

  

to put forth effort

馬 meaning component

馬  Meaning component

mǎ

  

horse

Evolution

騖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

骛 (騖) 

wù

gallop; rush about; pursue, run; fast; greedy; run rapidly

Most common words with 騖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

骛

fast

好高骛远

to aim too high

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4621st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

骛

Unicode

U+9A16

Shuowen

“鶩，亂馳也。从馬，敄聲。”


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