厥

Core senses include the third-person pronoun (he, she, it, they), as well as meanings related to oblivion/forgetting and cessation or destruction.

Functions as a third-person pronoun; typically serves a possessive function when preceding a noun.

Often interchangeable with 其 (qí), though 厥 is more characteristic of early textual strata. In contexts where both appear, 厥 may indicate a more distal reference or provide sharper focus on the subject than the general-purpose 其; a shift between the two within a passage may signal a change in perspective or a distinction between different third parties.

If a pronominal reading does not yield a coherent sense, consider the rarer meanings of oblivion/forgetting or cessation/destruction (which may occasionally function as phonetic loans for related terms).