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black horse with white legs
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驈 is a specific term from veterinary and equestrian contexts for a black horse with distinct white markings on its legs. As a phono-semantic compound, it is built from the semantic radical 馬 (meaning 'horse') on the left and the phonetic component 矞 on the right; the former categorizes the character within the equine domain, while the latter provides its pronunciation. This character reflects the remarkable precision of historical equestrian vocabulary, where even such a particular coat pattern was assigned a dedicated single-character term for accurate breeding and trading records.
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