What 駈 means
Yes: 駈 is a documented variant of 駆 and 驅.
The whole family is built around a horse in motion: running, galloping, driving horses onward. 駈 shares that core sense and differs only in shape, which is why dictionaries file it as a variant rather than a separate word.
That horse sense later widened in Japanese from mounted or animal movement to simply running or hurrying, with an early cited example for the related verb dated 鎨倉中か. As of 2026 the sources consulted here do not pin down the earliest surviving specimen of the exact shape 駈 itself.
Marked in ordinary Japanese prose; use 駆 unless a name, quotation, or riding term calls for 駈.
Do not silently normalize 駈 in a person's name; the variant can be intentional.
Who writes 駈
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA marked spelling of かける: run, dash, or hurry.
Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
2Questions people ask
1Why does 駈 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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How to type or find 駈
- Search it as
- 駈 · 駆 · かける · 駈ける · 駈歩 · かる · おう · 異体字
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
駈\99C8Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.