chěng

gallop horse

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

Components
马 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

horse

甹 sound component

  Sound component

pīng

  

chivalrous knight

Evolution

骋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
骋 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
骋 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
骋 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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chěng

gallop horse; hasten, hurry; to hasten; to run; to open up; to gallop

Most common words with 骋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

驰骋

to gallop

to run

纵横驰骋

to criss-cross

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4028th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

Unicode

U+9A8B


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