What 駟 means
It means a four-horse team or chariot. Bronze inscriptions already use 駟, both in a personal name on the 伯駟父盤 vessel and for the four-horse rig itself on the 庚壺 vessel.
Later 駟 also counted horses and meant to drive. By the Ming dynasty 匹 had replaced it as the everyday counter, so modern Mandarin keeps 駟 for literary idioms. 馬 signals horse while 四 gives the sì sound; 驂 is the matching three-horse term, and 驷 is the simplified form of 駟. In Japanese it reads シ for a four-horse carriage.
Literary and classical; in ordinary chat it reads as a quotation or input slip.
Do not use it as a casual replacement for 匹.
Who writes 駟
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1Why does 駟 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 駟
- Also called
- 驷
- Search it as
- 駟 · sì · si · 駟馬 · chariot
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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