horse

Origin & mnemonic

A pictograph of a horse, showing the head at the top, mane along the back, and four legs below. In oracle-bone script, the glyph clearly depicts the ears, face, and four legs of a horse.

Mnemonic: The horse radical looks like a sturdy horse standing on four legs with a flowing mane across the top.

• 𬴊lín🔊

  (literary) horse with a dappled coat

  15 strokes

• 骂mà🔊

  to scold

  HSK 5

  16 strokes

• 骆luò🔊

  camel

  16 strokes

• 骈pián🔊

  (of a pair of horses) to pull side by side

  16 strokes

• 𬳽shēn🔊

  large crowd

  16 strokes

• 骇hài🔊

  to astonish

  16 strokes

• 駯zhū🔊

  black muzzle (of a horse)

  16 strokes

• 骃yīn🔊

  iron-gray (horse)

  16 strokes

• 骋chěng🔊

  to hasten

  17 strokes

• 䯄guā🔊

  piebald horse

  17 strokes

• 駵liú🔊

  old variant of 騮|骝[liu2]

  17 strokes

• 骎qīn🔊

  fleet horse

  17 strokes

• 𬳿tú🔊

  used in 騊駼|𫘦𬳿[tao2 tu2]

  17 strokes

• 骏jùn🔊

  spirited horse

  17 strokes

• 骍xīng🔊

  horse (or cattle) of reddish color

  17 strokes

• 骤zhòu🔊

  sudden

  17 strokes

• 騘cōng🔊

  old variant of 驄|骢[cong1]

  19 strokes

• 骥jì🔊

  thoroughbred horse

  19 strokes

• 腾téng🔊

  (bound form) to gallop; to prance

  HSK 7

  20 strokes

• 驺zōu🔊

  groom or chariot driver employed by a noble (old)

  20 strokes

• 驆bì🔊

  used in transliterating Buddhist books

  20 strokes

• 骅huá🔊

  chestnut horse

  20 strokes

• 骦shuāng🔊

  used in 驌驦|骕骦[su4 shuang1]

  20 strokes

• 骧xiāng🔊

  (literary) to run friskily (of a horse)

  20 strokes

• 驱qū🔊

  to expel

  21 strokes

• 惊jīng🔊

  to startle

  HSK 7

  22 strokes

• 骁xiāo🔊

  good horse

  22 strokes

• 骄jiāo🔊

  proud

  22 strokes

• 验yàn🔊

  to examine

  HSK 7

  23 strokes

• 驿yì🔊

  post horse

  23 strokes

• 驴lǘ🔊

  donkey

  26 strokes

• 骊lí🔊

  black horse

  29 strokes

• 骉biāo🔊

  a horde of horses

  30 strokes

• 𱅒chěng🔊

  variant of 騁|骋[cheng3]

  30 strokes