What 㮻 means
Dictionaries point 㮻 to the entry for 搔. That entry covers scratching or rubbing an itchy spot and can also mean irritating or annoying someone. Both forms share 蚤 on the right; 搔 has 手 (hand) on the left, while 㮻 has 木 (wood or tree).
Yang Xiong's 蜀都賦, a classical poem describing Shu's capital, uses 㮻 in the phrase 紛揚㮻合 in a passage about riverside trees and bamboo. The Western Han occurrence establishes early literary use, but the phrase alone does not prove that 㮻 carries the later dictionary sense; dictionaries route it through 搔.
Why does 㮻 look different?
Font coverage can change its shape or hide the character. Across computers, phones, and browsers, font coverage can affect whether 㮻 appears and how its strokes look. A font without it may show a missing-character box or leave a blank; a different font may draw its proportions or strokes differently. That display change does not change which character it is.
A Chinese dictionary and classical-text character; in an informal message, its uncommon appearance can feel deliberate.
Is 㮻 an emoji? No; it is a Chinese text character, and the surrounding words show how it is being used.
Who writes 㮻
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Questions people ask
1Why does 㮻 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 㮻
- Search it as
- 搔 · scratch · itch · irritate · annoy · variant of 搔 · Chinese character · Wubi SCYJ
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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