CJK Unified Ideograph-4BAF

A fine horse first; later a wild one — or a proud person.

In Mandarin the word reads ào. Shuowen, the first great character dictionary, glosses the headword 驁 as 'a fine horse', and recognisable forms already appear on Han-era slips. 䮯 sets the phonetic 敖 beside the 'horse' component 馬 — the same pair standard 驁 stacks.

That explains the spread of glosses: a noble steed, a horse too stubborn to bridle, a person of rare talent — or of insufferable pride. The word even titles 驁夏, a movement of ancient court ritual music. The sentence and the century decide which meaning arrives.

Is 䮯 the same as 驁 or 骜?

Same word ào, three written forms — 䮯 is the rare one.

驁 is the traditional headword the dictionaries file the word under; 骜 is its simplified form in mainland China. 䮯 survives mainly in lexicographic records and fonts with wide CJK coverage — meeting it usually means old type, a character dictionary, or a font flexing its range.