駟

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See also: 驷
駟 U+99DF, 駟
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-99DF
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Translingual

Han character

駟 (Kangxi radical 187, 馬+5, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸火田金 (SFWC), four-corner 76300, composition ⿰馬四)

  1. team of four horses

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1437, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44683
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1961, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4547, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+99DF

Chinese

trad. 駟
simp. 驷

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 駟
Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (四) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
訵 *l̥ʰids
四 *hljids
泗 *hljids
駟 *hljids
柶 *hljids
牭 *hljids
呬 *hrids

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 駟
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 息利切
Baxter sijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/siɪH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/siH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/sjɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/siH/
Li
Rong 		/siH/
Wang
Li 		/siH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/siH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		sì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		si3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 駟
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		sì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ sijH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*s.li-s/
English team of four horses

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

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 駟
Reading # 1/1
No. 12024
Phonetic
component 		四
Rime
group 		至
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		四
Old
Chinese 		/*hljids/

Definitions

駟

  1. a vehicle drawn by four horses
  2. a horse
  3. to drive; to ride
  4. (archaic) Classifier for vehicles drawn by four horses.
  5. (archaic) Classifier for horses.
  6. a surname

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

駟

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): し (shi)

Korean

Hanja

駟 (eum 사 (sa))

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Vietnamese

Han character

駟: Hán Nôm readings: tứ

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References

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