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驱

qū

spur a horse on

Phonosemantic compound. 马 represents the meaning and 区 represents the sound. Simplified form of 驅.

Components
马 meaning component

马  Meaning component

mǎ

  

horse

区 sound component

区  Sound component

qū, oū

  

area

Evolution

驱 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
驱 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
驱 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

驱 (驅) 

qū

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

驱 (敺) 

qū

variant of 驅|驱[qū]

驱 (駈) 

qū

old variant of 驅|驱[qū]

Most common words with 驱
Freq.
Word
Meaning

驱逐

to expel

驱

to expel

驱动

to drive

驱使

to urge

先驱

pioneer

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

7

Traditional

驅

Unicode

U+9A71


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