駕

駕 (Kangxi radical 187, 馬+5, 15 strokes, cangjie input 大口尸手火 (KRSQF), four-corner 4632₇, composition ⿱加馬)

• 𡃉 𪯀

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1436, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44667
• Dae Jaweon: page 1960, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4550, character 9
• Unihan data for U+99D5

Historical forms of the character 駕
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kraːls) : phonetic 加 (OC *kraːl) + semantic 馬.

The exopassive of 加 (OC *kraːl, “to add; to attach”). Cognate with Tibetan ཁྲལ (khral, “to impose a tax”) (Schuessler, 2007).

駕

1. to harness; to yoke (an animal, e.g. to a cart)

   • 今乘輿已駕矣，有司未知所之。敢請。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     今乘舆已驾矣，有司未知所之。敢请。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

     Jīn chéngyú yǐ jià yǐ, yǒusī wèi zhī suǒ zhī. Gǎn qǐng.

     Now, the horses have been put to the carriage, and the officers do not yet know where you are going. I venture to ask.

2. to drive (a vehicle); to sail (a ship); to fly (a plane)

   駕車／驾车  ―  jiàchē  ―  to drive a vehicle

3. to direct; to control; to harness
4. (historical) cart; carriage
5. (historical) emperor's carriage
6. (figurative) emperor (especially on a journey)
7. (Classical) distance a horse travels in a day

   • 夫驥一日而千里，駑馬十駕，則亦及之矣。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     夫骥一日而千里，驽马十驾，则亦及之矣。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Xunzi, c. 3^rd century BCE

     Fū jì yīrì ér qiān lǐ, númǎ shí jià, zé yì jí zhī yǐ.

     The horse Qi Ji could go a thousand li in a day, but with ten days of riding an old nag can also go that far.

8. giddyup (interjection)

• (to control):

• “駕”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “驾”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 103.

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: か (ka)
• Kan’yō-on: が (ga)
• Kun: かご (kago, 駕)、のる (noru, 駕る)、しのぐ (shinogu, 駕ぐ)

From Middle Chinese 駕 (MC kaeH)

• (Tokyo) が (Atamadaka – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

駕(が) • (ga) ^{←が (ga)?}

1. vehicle; horse-drawn carriage

• 駕(が)を枉(ま)げる (ga o mageru)

From Middle Chinese 駕 (MC kaeH). Recorded as Middle Korean 가〯 (kǎ) (Yale: ka) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

駕

Wikisource

駕 (eumhun 멍에 가 (meong'e ga))

1. hanja form^? of 가 (“cart; carriage”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

駕: Hán Nôm readings: giá

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