# 駟

| 駟 | U+99DF, &#39391; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-99DF |
| ← 駞 [U+99DE] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 駠 → [U+99E0] |

## Translingual
### Han character

駟 (Kangxi radical 187, 馬+5, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸火田金 (SFWC), four-corner 7630$_0$, composition ⿰馬四)
* team of four horses

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1437, character 6
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44683
* Dae Jaweon: page 1961, character 16
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4547, character 11
* Unihan data for U+99DF

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 駟 :
| Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Chu slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 訵 | *l̥ʰids |
| 四 | *hljids |
| 泗 | *hljids |
| 駟 | *hljids |
| 柶 | *hljids |
| 牭 | *hljids |
| 呬 | *hrids |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): sì (si$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄙˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): si$^3$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sù
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: sì
*** Zhuyin: ㄙˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: sìh
*** Wade–Giles: ssŭ$^4$
*** Yale: sz̀
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syh
*** Palladius: сы (sy)
*** Sinological IPA : /sz̩⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: si$^3$
*** Yale: si
*** Cantonese Pinyin: si$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: xi$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /siː³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sù
*** Tâi-lô: sù
*** Phofsit Daibuun: sux
*** IPA (Xiamen): /su²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /su⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /su²¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /su¹¹/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /su²¹/
* Middle Chinese: sijH
Rime :
| Character | 駟 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (15) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 息利切 |
| Baxter | sijH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /siɪ$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /si$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /sjɪ$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /si$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /si$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /si$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /si$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | sì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | si$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*s.li[j]-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*hljids/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 駟 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | sì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ sij$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*s.li[j]-s/ |
| English | team of four horses |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 駟 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12024 |
| Phonetic component | 四 |
| Rime group | 至 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 四 |
| Old Chinese | /*hljids/ |

### Definitions

駟
* a vehicle drawn by four horses
* a horse
* to drive; to ride
* (archaic) Classifier for vehicles drawn by four horses.
* (archaic) Classifier for horses.
* a surname

#### Compounds

* 上駟／上驷 (shàngsì)
* 下駟／下驷
* 中駟／中驷
* 結駟連騎／结驷连骑
* 追駟不及／追驷不及
* 駟不及舌／驷不及舌
* 駟之過隙／驷之过隙
* 駟馬難追／驷马难追 (sìmǎnánzhuī)
* 駟馬高車／驷马高车
* 駟驖／驷𬴋
* 高車駟馬／高车驷马

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: し (shi)
* Kan-on: し (shi)

## Korean
### Hanja

駟 (eum 사 (sa))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

駟: Hán Nôm readings: tứ
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#### References

* Nom Foundation