suddenly

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
馬 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

horse

莫 sound component

  Sound component

  

do not

Evolution

驀 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
驀 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
驀 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

suddenly, quickly, abruptly; leap on or over; suddenly

Most common words with 驀
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蓦然

suddenly

蓦地

suddenly

suddenly

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3160th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

Unicode

U+9A40

Shuowen

“驀,上馬也。从馬,莫聲。”


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