What 𮩵 means
White on a horse’s left hind foot. The phrase 駕我騏馵 appears in the Classic of Poetry, an anthology whose poems are commonly dated 1000–600 BCE. Its traditional commentary explains 馵 as a horse whose left foot is white.
The Shuowen Jiezi, a Chinese character dictionary completed around 100 CE, gives the same gloss. The Yupian, another Chinese character dictionary completed around 543 CE, also records a horse with a raised or suspended foot. The surrounding passage tells which historical sense fits.
A classical horse term with two dictionary glosses.
In a historical text, do not assume every use means a white left hind foot; the Yupian also records a raised-foot sense.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𮩵 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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