piebald horse

Evolution

騏 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
騏 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
騏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
騏 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
騏 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

() 

piebald horse; excellent horse; used for [qí], mythical unicorn

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g](r)ə

gi

black-mottled grey horse


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6298th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+9A0F

Shuowen

“騏,馬青驪文如博棊也。从馬,其聲。”


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