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驅

qū

spur a horse on

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

Components
馬 meaning component

馬  Meaning component

mǎ

  

horse

區 sound component

區  Sound component

qū, oū

  

area

Evolution

驅 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
驅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

驱 (驅) 

qū

spur a horse on; expel, drive away; to expel; to urge on; to drive; to run quickly

Most common words with 驅
Freq.
Word
Meaning

驱逐

to expel

驱

to expel

驱动

to drive

驱使

to urge

先驱

pioneer

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʰ(r)o

khju

qū

drive (horses) forward


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 10.8602% of movies

1898th most common character in movies

1511th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Simplified

驱

Unicode

U+9A45

Shuowen

“驅，馬馳也。从馬，區聲。敺，古文驅从攴。”


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