骏马
jùn mǎ · HSK 7
fine horse
🐎 骏 (swift, excellent) + 马 (horse) = a swift excellent horse, a steed
骏 on its own means a superb, fast horse, and 马 is the everyday word for horse. Stacked together they name a top-grade steed. The 马 component sits inside 骏, tagging the whole word as horse-related.
马 — pictograph of a horse (simplified from 馬)
马 is a pictograph that originally depicted a horse in profile, with mane, legs, and tail clearly visible in the oracle bone and bronze script forms. The traditional form 馬 still preserves four dots representing the legs. The modern simplified form 马 streamlines these strokes but retains the same meaning: horse.