chí
go quickly or swiftly
Phonosemantic compound. 馬 represents the meaning and 也 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 馳
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to speed | ||
to speed | ||
to speed | ||
to run in the opposite direction (idiom); to run counter to | ||
to gallop |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[l]raj | drje | chí | 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 | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+99B3 |
Shuowen | “馳，大驅也。从馬，也聲。” |
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