驅

See also 駆, and 驱

Translingual

shinjitai	駆
simplified	驱
traditional	驅

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 馬 (“horse”) + phonetic 區.

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

驅 (simplified 驱, Yale keui1)

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Japanese

Kanji

驅

Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

驅 (simplified 驱, pinyin qū (qu1), Wade-Giles ch'ü¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

驅 (khu, xúi, xù)