驥 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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jì

thoroughbred horse

Phonosemantic compound. 馬 represents the meaning and 冀 represents the sound.

Components

馬 Meaning component

mǎ

horse

冀 Sound component

jì

hope for

Evolution

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

jì

thoroughbred horse; refined; refined and virtuous

Most common words with 驥

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	骥	thoroughbred horse
	冯骥才	Feng Jicai (1942-), novelist from Tianjin, author of Extraordinary people in our ordinary world 俗世奇人
	按图索骥	fig. to do things along rigid, conventional lines
	老骥伏枥	lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. aged person with great aspirations