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Kanji Detail for 駕 - "ride, control, surpass"
駕
- Meaning
駕 means "ride, control, surpass."
To harness - To attach a vehicle to an animal.
To ride - To mount a carriage or vehicle.
Vehicle - The emperor's carriage; transportation.
To control - To handle; to manage.
To surpass - To exceed; to go beyond.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
vehicle; palanquin; litter; hitch up an animal
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
to drive, sail, fly; a cart, carriage
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
surname Jia
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to drive, to ride, to sail; carriage, cart
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Harnessing horses to a carriage. Colloquially called 套廾. | To control. As in 長駕遠馭 means being able to control distant places. | A general name for carriages. As in when the Son of Heaven travels, there are 大駕 (grand procession) and 法駕 (standard procession), distinguished by the complexity of the entourage, all called 駕. Therefore the Son of Heaven's travel is also referred to as 駕. | A respectful term for others. As in thanking someone for visiting is called 勞駕. Inviting someone to keep an appointment is called 夙駕. Both refer to going out. | Metaphorically speaking of progress. As in saying degrees are equal is called 並駕齊驅 (advancing together). Also called 方駕. Meaning competing equally. | 別駕. A Han official title. An assistant to the provincial governor. In later times, the vice prefect's duties were similar, so vice prefects were also called 別駕.
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