駟

See also: 驷

駟 U+99DF, 駟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-99DF ← 駞 [U+99DE] CJK Unified Ideographs 駠 → [U+99E0]

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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sì (si⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sù

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sì
    • Zhuyin: ㄙˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sìh
    • Wade–Giles: ssŭ⁴
    • Yale: sz̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syh
    • Palladius: сы (sy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: si³
    • Yale: si
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si³
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sù
    • Tâi-lô: sù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sux
    • IPA (Xiamen): /su²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /su⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /su²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /su¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /su²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: sijH

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

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s.li[j]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljids/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	駟
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sì
Middle Chinese	‹ sijH ›
Old Chinese	/*s.li[j]-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. *[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	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

• 上駟／上驷 (shàngsì)
• 下駟／下驷
• 中駟／中驷
• 結駟連騎／结驷连骑
• 追駟不及／追驷不及
• 駟不及舌／驷不及舌
• 駟之過隙／驷之过隙
• 駟馬難追／驷马难追 (sìmǎnánzhuī)
• 駟馬高車／驷马高车
• 駟驖／驷𬴋
• 高車駟馬／高车驷马

 

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

• Nom Foundation