drive

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
马 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

horse

又 sound component

  Sound component

yòu

  

(hand), again

Evolution

驭 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
驭 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
驭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
驭 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
驭 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
驭 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

drive, ride; manage, control; variant of [yù]; to drive; to manage; to control

Most common words with 驭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

驾驭

to drive

to drive

驭手

chariot driver

以一驭万

to control a key point is to be master of the situation (idiom)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.6178% of movies

3158th most common character in movies

3424th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Traditional

Unicode

U+9A6D


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