Definitions
mare; female horse
Etymology
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The character 騇 denotes a female horse or mare, a precise equestrian term found in classical texts. It is a phono-semantic compound, with the semantic radical 馬 (horse) on the left specifying the animal category, and the phonetic component 舍 (shè, meaning dwelling) on the right indicating its pronunciation. This character exemplifies the detailed taxonomic vocabulary in ancient Chinese for livestock, though it is now obsolete, having been entirely replaced by descriptive compounds such as 母马 in modern usage.