Taxonomy of meanings for 御:　　

Additional information about 御

說文解字: 【御】，使馬也。从彳、从卸。 〔小徐本「卸」上無「从」。〕 【徐鍇曰：卸，解車馬也。或彳或卸者，皆御者之職。】 【牛據切】 【馭】，古文御从又、从馬。 〔小徐本「馬」上無「从」。〕

Criteria
• FORBID
  

  1. The current dominant general word referring to public prohibition is jìn 禁 (ant. quàn 勸 "encourage").

  2. Yù 御 / 禦 (ant. sòng yǒng 慫恿 "leave free to do what one wants") refers to putting an end to practice by authority, but not necessarily through formal public prohibition of the practice.

  3. È 遏 refers more narrowly to putting a legal stop to the further development of something.

• DRIVE
  

  1. Yù 御 refers to the driving and steering of a carriage.

  2. Chéng 乘 is simply to ride in a conveyance without necessarily steering it.

  3. Jià 駕 is to get the horses and/or a conveyance ready for driving, or to order this to be done, and then by extension the going to a place by a conveyance.

  4. Qū 驅 is to drive a conveyance at high speed, or to have it driven for one at high speed.

• CONTROL
  

  1. The most current general word in this group is zhì 制 (ant. zòng 縱 "give free rein to"), which refers to all kinds of control, political, physical, as well as psychological.

  2. Zhì 治 refers to the orderly and principled long-term control of something.

  3. Yù 御 refers to the exercise of sovereign unchallenged control over.

  4. Guǎn 管 and zhǎng 掌 refer to the concrete practical control over something large or small.

  5. Shàn 擅 refers to gaining or having unlegitimised sole control of something. See MONOPOLISE

  6. Zhuān 專 refers to having sole control, typically of some administrative function. See MONOPOLISE

  7. Bà 霸 refers to dominating and controlling something through a supreme display of power. See also RULER

• VEHICLE
  

  1. The current general term for a vehicle is chē 車, a term which also refers even more generally to all contraptions with wheels.

  2. Jià 駕 refers to a yoked carriage.

  3. Yù 御 refers to a yoked carriage, with driver in place, ready to go.

  4. Yú 輿 refers originally to the compartment xiāng 箱 of the carriage, but came to be used as a general term for a carriage used for transporting people. See CARRIAGE

  5. Chéng 乘 is the general noun classifier for all vehicles, and this word must be carefully from the shèng 乘 "war chariot". See CHARIOT

  6. Zhěn 軫 "back bord on a carriage" is often used to refer to a carriage as a whole, by synecdoche.

• SERVE
  

  1. The current general word for serving another is shì 事 (ant. shǐ 使 "deploy").

  2. Chén 臣 emphasises the subservience of the servant and his lasting employment in a subservient position.

  3. Shì 侍 and the rare and more elevated yù 御 refers specifically to physical attentance to the daily needs of a master, and it involves physical presence near him. See ACCOMPANY

  4. Shǐ 使 refers specifically to serving in a formal mission on behalf of a master.

  5. Fú 服 refers to the devoted service to a master.

  6. Cóng 從 refers to someone having decided to belong to the entourage or following of a master.

  7. Huàn 宦 refers to filling a typically menial position in a household.

• RACING
  

  1. The most general word for a speed contest is zhú 逐, which originally means "try to catch up".

  2. Yù 御 refers specifically to cart-racing.

  3. Chí 馳 refers specifically to horse-racing.

• COPULATE
  

  1. The current general word for copulation applying to both humans and animals, are jiāo 交, hé 合, and these are all rather discrete abstract terms to use.

  2. Yù 御 refers to a male "riding" a female, and the word has no negative overtones.

  3. Tōng 通 and sī 私 are neutral historian's terms for improper sexual intercourse.

  4. Xì 戲 refers to a man making a sexual pass at a woman (occasionally actually one's own wife!).

  5. Yín 淫 and huì 穢 are derogatory terms for engaging in lewd sexual activities with someone.

  6. Xìng 幸 refers periphrastically and politely in historical texts to enjoying the sexual favours, typically of an emperor. See also FAVOUR

  7. Zhēng 烝 refers to the ritual establishment of political relations with a widowed woman of one's senior generation through publicised spending of a night with her.

  8. Bào 報 refers to establishing extramarital sexual relations with a woman of a (normally) lower but sometimes also of a higher generation, but not normally of the same generation.

  9. Gǔ 蠱 refers to a male using irregular means to obtain the sexual favours of a woman he is not married to.

  NB: gòu 構／媾 was late to become current as a term for sexual union.

• FEND OFF
  

  1. The current general word for keeping someone or something at a distance or hindering an advance against one is yù 禦 / 御.

  2. Jù 拒 concentrates on the maintenance of physical distance by some superior force.

  3. Dǐ 抵 refers to a defensive way of preventing something from getting close to one.

  4. Kàng 抗 refers to keeping something at a distance by force.

Word relations
• Object: (HINDER)寒/COLD The standard current word referring to coldness is hán 寒 (ant. standardly shǔ 暑, but also wēn 溫, rè 熱 "warm"). 1 Attribution
• Object: (DRIVE)學/STUDY The dominant word is xué 學 (ant. jiào 教 "train teach")which refers primarily to studying or training under another person, and secondarily to the learning by heart texts. Very often, the word retains a tinge of immitation. 1 Attribution
• Assoc: (COPULATE)嬪/WIFE1 Attribution
• Synon: (DRIVE)御者/DRIVE1 Attribution
• Oppos: (DRIVE)射/ARCHERY The dominant general term is shè 射and this word refers to all kinds of shooting with a bow, particularly ritualised archery. [GENERAL] 1 Attribution