朋驰

朋 péng friend

Original meaning: pair of strings of jade

Depicts a pair of strings of jade mounted together. The meaning later shifted to "friend". Not related to 月 (moon), despite the visual similarity.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 8 verified)

鹏崩棚绷硼堋鵬萠

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartbong[b]ˤəŋ set of cowries; friend

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.306漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica

驰 chí go quickly or swiftly Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 马 represents the meaning and 也 represents the sound. Simplified form of 馳.

Components

马
马 Meaning component
mǎ horse
也
也 Sound component
yě also

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

馳 chí go quickly or swiftly Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 馬 represents the meaning and 也 represents the sound.

Components

馬
馬 Meaning component
mǎ horse
也
也 Sound component
yě also

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdrje[l]rajgallop
Zhengzhangl'al
Unicodedjhiɛ

說文解字

大驅也。从馬也聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)