thoroughbred horse

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
馬 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

horse

冀 sound component

  Sound component

  

hope for

Evolution

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

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
驥 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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thoroughbred horse; refined; refined and virtuous

Most common words with 驥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

thoroughbred horse

冯骥才

Feng Jicai (1942-), novelist from Tianjin, author of Extraordinary people in our ordinary world 俗世奇人

按图索骥

fig. to do things along rigid, conventional lines

老骥伏枥

lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. aged person with great aspirations