What 㺅 means
Yes: 猴 is the usual form; 㺅 is its historical variant.
㺅 names a monkey. Its animal marker 犭 is paired with 侯, the sound-bearing component. An older, picture-based graph for the same word, 夒, appears in inscriptions on divination bones from late Shang, an early Chinese dynasty. Later dictionaries and the regular script—a standard style for writing Chinese characters—preserve 㺅 beside 猴; the meaning stayed “monkey” while 猴 became the standard form.
Bookish and variant-marked; it suits character study or a historical quotation.
If 㺅 appears as a box, your font lacks the glyph; the text still contains this character.
Who writes 㺅
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 㺅 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 㺅
- Also called
- 猴
- Search it as
- hou · monkey · 㺅 · Chinese character variant · variant of 猴
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㺅\3E85Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.