halter

A leather  halter used to control a horse  

Components
罒 meaning component

  Meaning component

wǎng

  

Radical 122

革 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

leather

馬 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

horse

Evolution

羈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
羈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
羈 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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halter; restrain, hold, control; bridle; to restrain; to detain; to lodge; inn

Most common words with 羈
Freq.
Word
Meaning

羁押

to detain

羁绊

trammels

bridle

不羁

unruly

放荡不羁

wanton and unrestrained (idiom); dissolute

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kraj

kje

bridle, halter


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.2745% of movies

2994th most common character in movies

3297th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

24

Simplified

Unicode

U+7F88

Shuowen

“,馬絡頭也。从网,从馽。馽,馬絆也。,或从革。”


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