駄

See also: 馱, 驮, and 䭾

駄 U+99C4, 駄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-99C4 ← 駃 [U+99C3] CJK Unified Ideographs 駅 → [U+99C5]

Translingual

Japanese	駄
Simplified	驮
Traditional	馱

Han character

駄 (Kangxi radical 187, 馬+4, 14 strokes, cangjie input 尸火大戈 (SFKI), composition ⿰馬太)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1435, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44633
• Dae Jaweon: page 1960, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4543, character 9
• Unihan data for U+99C4

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 馬 + phonetic 太 (OC *tʰaːds).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 駄 – see 馱 (“to carry on one's back; load carried by a pack animal”). (This character is an ancient variant form of 馱).

Japanese

Kanji

駄

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 馱)

1. Of low quality

Readings

• Go-on: だ (da, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: た (ta)
• Kun: のせる (noseru, 駄せる)

Compounds

Compounds

• 韋駄(いだ)天(てん) (idaten): Skanda (Buddhism); fast-footed person
• 下駄(げた) (geta): geta
• 駄目(だめ) (dame): no good; forbidden
• 無駄(むだ) (muda): no good; waste
• 駄法螺(だぼら) (dabora)