relay station

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
馬 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

horse

睪 sound component

  Sound component

  

spy on

Evolution

驛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
驛 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
驛 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
驛 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

驿 () 

relay station; post horse

Most common words with 驛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

驿站

relay station for post horses (old)

驿

post horse

驿城区

Yicheng district of Zhumadian city 駐馬店市|驻马店市[Zhù​mǎ​diàn​shì], Henan

驿城

Yicheng district of Zhumadian city 駐馬店市|驻马店市[Zhù​mǎ​diàn​shì], Henan

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lAk

yek

post-horse


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3648th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

23

Simplified

Unicode

U+9A5B

Shuowen

“驛,置騎也。从馬,睪聲。”


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