yù
drive
Phonosemantic compound. 马 represents the meaning and 又 represents the sound. Simplified form of 馭.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 驭
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to drive | ||
to drive | ||
chariot driver | ||
to control a key point is to be master of the situation (idiom) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.6178% of movies
3158th most common character in movies
3424th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+9A6D |
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