Rare Chinese character 驞

It completes 驞駍, a classical sound-expression for a surge of voices.

Chinese character dictionaries gloss 驞駍 as the sound of many voices together. Its attested sense comes from the phrase, rather than a general label for any one noise.

When does 驞 first appear?

Its earliest known literary use appears in a Han-era fu.

It occurs in Yang Xiong's 羽獵賦, a long, descriptive form of Chinese poetic prose. The phrase 驞駍駖磕 turns riders, weapons, and movement in an imperial hunt into a wall of sound. The historical account frames the work as an admonition against lavish imperial hunting.

The work's date is debated; published proposals place it around 14–11 BCE. The early Chinese dictionary Shuowen Jiezi does not record 驞, while later dictionaries preserve the phrase and its sense.

What if someone sends 驞?

A quotation points to the old phrase; a lone glyph stays ambiguous.

Inside the literary phrase, it points to that old sound-effect use. Sent alone in casual chat, it gives too little context to infer intent; ask the sender what they mean.