驷 (駟) sì

1. sì noun a team of four horses
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '駟'; Guoyu '駟' n 3; Unihan '駟')
2. sì noun a carriage drawn by four horses
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '駟' n 1)
3. sì noun a horse
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '駟' n 2)
4. sì proper noun Si
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (Guoyu '駟' n 2)
5. sì noun to drive a carriage; to ride a horse
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '駟' v)

Contained in

• 高车驷马(高車駟馬) a team of four horses with a high carriage; wealth and luxury
• 君子一言，驷马难追(君子一言，駟馬難追) a nobleman's word is his bond
• 驷不及舌(駟不及舌) a team of four horses is not enough to hold back the tongue; once words are spoken they cannot be taken back
• 驰车千驷(馳車千駟) a thousand swift chariots
• 一言既出，驷马难追(一言既出，駟馬難追) once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it; a promise must be kept
• 驷马高车(駟馬高車) a team of four horses with a high carriage; wealth and luxury
• 驷马难追(駟馬難追) [a spoken word is] hard to catch even with a team of four horses

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 襄公 Lord Xiang The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 26
• 卷二十五 志第十五 輿服 Volume 25 Treatises 15: Travel and Dress Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 22
• 定公 Lord Ding The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 12
• 昭公 Lord Zhao The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 9
• 卷七 Scroll 7 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 9
• 哀公 Lord Ai The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 8
• 《鄭世家》 House of Zheng Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 8
• 卷三十四 Scroll 34 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 8
• 卷十四 Scroll 14 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 7
• 周語下 Discourses of Zhou III Guoyu 國語 — count: 7

Collocations

• 子驷 (子駟) 子駟為質 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 35
• 驷马 (駟馬) 人主之駟馬也 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷九　主術訓 Chapter 9: The Sovereign's Methods — count: 34
• 安车驷 (安車駟) 陸生常安車駟馬 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《酈生陸賈列傳》 Biographies of Li Yiji and Lu Gu — count: 20
• 驷钧 (駟鈞) 駟鈞 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《呂太后本紀》Annals of Empress Dowager Lü — count: 11
• 郑驷 (鄭駟) 鄭駟偃卒 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 10
• 驷赤 (駟赤) 叔孫謂郈工師駟赤曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 定公 Lord Ding — count: 10
• 二驷 (二駟) 駕二駟 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《匈奴列傳》 Treatise on the Xiongnu — count: 8
• 一驷 (一駟) 於是楚王發使一駟 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十一 善說 Chapter 11: Virtuous Speech — count: 8
• 天驷 (天駟) 曰天駟 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《天官書》 Astronomy — count: 6
• 驷弘 (駟弘) 鄭駟弘帥師救曹 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 哀公 Lord Ai — count: 5