驅

• Guidance and command: Literal spurring of horses or directing of chariots; extended to leading or commanding troops in physical transit.
• Expulsion and removal: Driving something away, ranging from shooing animals to the political banishment of a person.
• Abstract dispelling: Driving away abstract qualities (e.g., darkness, clouds, or illness).

• Transitivity: Almost exclusively a transitive verb; the object is the entity being moved.
• Causative nuance: In sequences of verbs, it may function as a causative of movement—forcing an object to move toward a specific destination or state. This differs from general causatives (such as 使 or 令) in that the "forcing" is specifically tied to physical or metaphorical displacement.

// Contrast with 逐 (//zhú*): While both involve driving, 逐 typically emphasizes the pursuit or the chase, whereas 驅 emphasizes the forcing out or removal from a space.

• Semantic variant: U+657A (found in early manuscripts).
• Simplified variant: U+9A71.

// The component 区 (//qū*) relates to boundaries or partitions, supporting the "expulsive" sense of moving something across or out of a designated boundary.

When encountering this glyph, determine if the movement is steered (guidance), pushed (coercion), or removed (expulsion). The distinction usually depends on whether the object is a tool/animal of transport or an unwanted presence.