a pure black horse

Components
馬 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

horse

horse

麗 sound component

  Sound component

  

beautiful

Evolution

驪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
驪 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
驪 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
驪 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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a pure black horse; a pair of horses; black horse; jet steed; good horse; legendary black dragon

Most common words with 驪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

black horse

骊山

Mt Li near Xi'an with the tomb of the First Emperor

探骊得珠

to see through to the nub

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4826th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

29

Simplified

Unicode

U+9A6A

Shuowen

“驪,馬深黑色。从馬,麗聲。”


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