donkey

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

Components
马 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

horse

户 sound component

  Sound component

  

door

Evolution

驴 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
驴 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
驴 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

donkey, ass; donkey; CL:|[tóu]

(馿) 

variant of |[lǘ]

Most common words with 驴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

donkey

驴子

ass

蠢驴

silly ass

毛驴

donkey

黔驴技穷

to exhaust one's limited abilities (idiom)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.3729% of movies

2387th most common character in movies

2543rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+9A74


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