What 𩛢 means
No. “Sour” belongs to a borrowed reading for another character. An early written use appears in the Han-era Cang Jie Pian, a primer for learning Chinese characters, where 𩛢 names cooked rice. Later lexicons Guangya and Yupian gloss it as 饙, rice cooked by steaming. One reading of an old dictionary note links the pronunciation xiū with “sour” while explaining 𩞑, a different character for spoiled rice. This is a sound-based borrowing, not a second food meaning for 𩛢.
Who writes 𩛢
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Questions people ask
1Will 𩛢 display on Windows?
Yes. Taiwan’s CNS 11643 character catalog says the default system fonts in Windows 10 and later include the glyph (2024).
How to type or find 𩛢
- Search it as
- xiū · xiu · steamed rice · cooked rice · 饙
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𩛢\296E2Codes and encoding1 code points
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