逐

The glyph operates across two primary semantic axes:

1. Movement:

• Pursuit: Chasing, hunting, or following to capture/overtake.
• Expulsion: Driving away, banishing, or evicting (in legal or political contexts, this typically denotes formal removal from a position, court, or city).

2. Sequence: "One by one," "successively," or "in turn."

When appearing before nouns or classifiers, the glyph often functions as an adverbial modifier indicating a distributive process (dealing with objects sequentially).

Contrast with 追: While frequently interchangeable in the sense of "pursue," 追 often implies the act of catching up or recovering something lost, whereas 逐 tends toward more aggressive force—either the drive of the hunt or the violence of eviction.

When encountering this glyph, determine if the movement is:

• Toward: Pursuit/Capture.
• Away from: Expulsion/Banishment.
• Along: Sequential progression (one by one).