Taxonomy of meanings for 駕:　　

  • 駕 jià (OC: kraals MC: kɯa) 古訝切 去 廣韻：【行也乗也説文曰馬在軶中也古訝切十二 】
    • DRIVE
      • nabactdriving exercise (with horses); the (continued) driving, the driving along
      • v[adN]driver
      • viactyoke one's carriage and drive; drive on; set off in a carriage
      • vtoNsteer or drive (a conveyance)
      • one day's ride>LENGTH
        • prepare>YOKE
          • nabactthe yoking of one's carriage 不俟駕
          • viactyoke one's carriage; yoke a carriage; harness up
          • vtoNyoke (a carriage), yoke (horses) to a carriage
          • vtoNmiddle voicebe yoked (of carriage)
          • vtoNN=animalyoke
          • viimperativeyoke the horses!
        • object>VEHICLE
          • nK: yoked carriage with its horses
      • =架
    • 駕 ｊｉａ１《集韻》居牙切，平麻見。

      Additional information about 駕

      說文解字: 【駕】，馬在軶中。 〔小徐本無「馬在」二字。〕 从馬、加聲。 【古訝切】 【𤙑】，籒文駕。 〔小徐本無「駕」。〕

        Criteria
      • 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.

      • 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.

        Word relations
      • Object: (DRIVE)車 / 車/VEHICLE The current general term for a vehicle is chē 車, a term which also refers even more generally to all contraptions with wheels
      • Contrast: (DRIVE)乘/DRIVE Chéng 乘 is simply to ride in a conveyance without necessarily steering it.