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駕

jià

to drive

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

Components
馬 meaning component

馬  Meaning component

mǎ

  

horse

加 sound component

加  Sound component

jiā

  

add

Evolution

駕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
駕 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
駕 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

驾 (駕) 

jià

to drive, sail, fly; a cart, carriage; to harness; to draw (a cart etc); to drive; to pilot; to sail; to ride; your good self; prefixed word denoting respect (polite 敬辞)

驾 (駕) 

Jià

surname Jia

Most common words with 駕
Freq.
Word
Meaning

驾驶

to drive

驾

to harness

驾车

to drive a vehicle

驾驶员

pilot

驾照

driver's license

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤraj-s

kaeH

jià

hitch horses to a chariot


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 26.1413% of movies

1258th most common character in movies

1567th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

驾

Unicode

U+99D5

Shuowen

“駕，馬在軛中。从馬，加聲。，籀文駕。”


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