zhuī
noun #81,334

Meanings

  1. 1 (classical) a piebald horse, dark with white patches
  2. 2 surname Zhui

Examples

Zhuī bù shì xī kě nàihé.
When even his good horse Zhui would not gallop, what could he do?

Tips

history
'piebald horse' is not used in modern Chinese. It is famous as the name of Xiang Yu's warhorse , lamented in his farewell song. The phonetic is , the short-tailed-bird sign.
register
Archaic and literary only, encountered as a horse name in classical texts, not in everyday speech.

Components

radical
horse
The horse radical carries the meaning: names a particular coat colour of horse.
phonetic
zhuī
short-tailed bird
supplies the sound zhuī. The same phonetic appears in (vertebra) and (an awl).

Stroke Order

zhuī