戒骄戒躁
jiè​jiāo​jiè​zào

guard against pride

戒 jiè warn

Depicts two hands (廾) holding a weapon (戈) guarding against danger.

Components

戈
戈 Meaning component
gē spear
廾
廾 Meaning component
gǒng two hands

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
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 Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

械诫誡

Meaning (0 of 2 verified)

诫誡

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkeajHkˤrək-s
(~ kˤrək)		be on guard

說文解字

《說文》：“戒，警也。从廾持戈，以戒不虞。”

Sources

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

骄 jiāo spirited, haughty Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 马 represents the meaning and 乔 represents the sound. Simplified from 驕.

Components

马
马 Meaning component
mǎ horse
乔
乔 SoundMeaning component
qiáo, jiǎo tall

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode

躁 zào tense

Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 喿 represents the sound.

Components

足
足 Meaning component
zú foot
喿
喿 Sound component
zào, sào, qiāo chirping of birds

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangʔsaːws
Unicodetzɑ̀u

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

驕 jiāo spirited, haughty Traditional

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

Components

馬
馬 Meaning component
mǎ horse
喬
喬 SoundMeaning component
tall

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
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
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangkrew
Unicodegyɛu

說文解字

《說文》：“驕，馬高六尺為驕。从馬，喬聲。《詩》曰：‘我馬唯驕。’一曰野馬。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)