驐

It means castrating an animal. 驐 is a regional husbandry verb, usually for livestock or poultry; the animal can follow it in a phrase. A reader’s dialect background affects whether the word feels familiar or archaic.

An early dictionary record appears in the Guangyun, a Chinese rhyme dictionary compiled in 1008. The Ministry of Education’s 2024 character dictionary says Shuowen, an older dictionary of Chinese characters, does not record it. Later rhyme and character dictionaries preserve the same sense; 鐓 is recorded as an equivalent written form.

How do I type 驐?

Enter dun with Chinese Pinyin input, then choose the rare character. Its reading is written dūn, and the input method may offer many homophones. A longer phrase such as 驐猪 can narrow the candidates. If pronunciation lookup misses it, try radical-and-stroke or component search; Unicode hexadecimal input is a fallback when the app supports it. The display depends on your installed font.

Why can 驐 sound like an insult?

It can be a blunt regional curse. A 2021 account of Shanghai’s Wu variety of Chinese records 卵也驐掉侬 as a curse built around castration. The account describes it as menacing without being obscene. That is a local extension, not the default reading of the isolated character.

With an animal after it, read 驐猪, 驐鸡, 驐狗, or 驐马 literally. Without context, ask which dialect or sentence the sender means instead of assuming a universal slang sense.