驅

驅 U+9A45, 驅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9A45 ← 驄 [U+9A44] CJK Unified Ideographs 驆 → [U+9A46]

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

• 駆 驱

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

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Chinese

trad.		驅
simp.		驱
alt. forms		駆

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qū (qu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): keoi¹
• Min Nan (POJ): khu / khi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qū
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ü¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiu
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: keoi¹
    • Yale: kēui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: koey¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: kêu¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰɵy̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khu
    • Tâi-lô: khu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qw
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰu³³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰu⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khi
    • Tâi-lô: khi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qy
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰi⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /kʰɨo/, /kʰɨo^H/▼

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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[k]ʰ(r)o/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰo/, /*kʰos/

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”)
2. to expel; to disperse

   • 夏天他們通常點香驅蚊。 [MSC, trad.]

     夏天他们通常点香驱蚊。 [MSC, simp.]

     Xiàtiān tāmen tōngcháng diǎn xiāng qū wén. [Pinyin]

     In summer, they usually burn some coil incense to keep away the mosquitoes.

3. to drive (a horse, a car); to urge on; to spur
   • 他驅馬向前。 / 他驱马向前。  ―  Tā qū mǎ xiàngqián.  ―  He spurred his horse forward.

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Japanese

Kanji

驅

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

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Readings

• On: く (ku), きゅう (kyū)
• Kun: かける (kakeru), かる (karu)

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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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