駕

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

• KangXi: 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, 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. [Pinyin]

     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 Chinese) 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. [Pinyin]

     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)

• “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–

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

• 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)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• On’yomi
• (Tokyo) が​ [gáꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɡa̠]

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 kˠa^H). Recorded as Middle Korean 가〯 (kǎ) (Yale: ka) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

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

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.