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驅

驅

See also: 駆 and 驱

Translingual

Traditional 驅
Shinjitai 駆
Simplified 驱

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 驅
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (區) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
摳 *kʰoː, *kʰo
彄 *kʰoː
剾 *kʰoː, *qoː
謳 *qoː
歐 *qoː, *qoːʔ
區 *qoː, *kʰo
鷗 *qoː
甌 *qoː
漚 *qoː, *qoːs
瞘 *qoː
嘔 *qoː, *qoːʔ
櫙 *qoː
膒 *qoː
蓲 *qoː, *kʰu, *qo, *qos
醧 *qoː, *qas
鏂 *qoː
毆 *qoːʔ
塸 *qoːʔ
貙 *kʰl'o
樞 *kʰjo
驅 *kʰo, *kʰos
軀 *kʰo
嶇 *kʰo
鰸 *kʰo
敺 *kʰo
傴 *qoʔ
嫗 *qos
饇 *qos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰo, *kʰos) : semantic 馬 ‎(“horse”) + phonetic 區 ‎(OC *qoː, *kʰo).

Han character

驅 (radical 187 馬+11, 21 strokes, cangjie input 尸火尸口口 (SFSRR), four-corner 71316, composition ⿰馬區)

  1. spur a horse on
  2. expel, drive away

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 1444, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44968
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1968, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4574, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9A45

Chinese

trad. 驅
simp. 驱

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 驅 驅
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 溪 (29) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 虞 (24) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 豈俱切 區遇切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰɨo/ /kʰɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰio/ /kʰioH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰio/ /kʰioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰuə̆/ /kʰuə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /kʰio/ /kʰioH/
Wang
Li		 /kʰĭu/ /kʰĭuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰi̯u/ /kʰi̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qū qù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 驅
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qū
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khju ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ʰ(r)o/
English drive (horses) forward

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 驅 驅
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 10606 10612
Phonetic
component		 區 區
Rime
group		 侯 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 區 驅
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰo/ /*kʰos/

Definitions

驅

  1. to run quickly
    • 並駕齊驅／并驾齐驱 (bìngjiàqíqū, “to keep pace with, to run neck and neck”)
    • 馳驅／驰驱 (“to gallop, to run fast”)

Verb

驅

  1. to expel; to disperse
  2. to drive (a horse, a car); to urge on; to spur

Japanese

Kanji

驅

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 駆)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

驅 • ‎(gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune-Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

驅 (xúi, khu, xù)

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