U+9A73 "驳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9A73 "驳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means to refute, contradict, or argue against an idea or statement, and it also carries the older sense of a patchy or mixed color pattern, often used to describe a horse with a dappled coat. In modern Mandarin, it is commonly used in formal and informal contexts to denote challenging or rebutting an opinion, as in the words 反驳 (refute) and 驳斥 (denounce). Historically, its composition combines the radical for horse (马) with the phonetic component 爻, reflecting its original concrete meaning before it evolved to its more common abstract usage in debate and logic.