chí
go quickly or swiftly
Phonosemantic compound. 马 represents the meaning and 也 represents the sound. Simplified form of 馳.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 驰
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to speed | ||
to speed | ||
to speed | ||
to run in the opposite direction (idiom); to run counter to | ||
to gallop |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.7802% of movies
2604th most common character in movies
2100th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+9A70 |
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