What 㿱 means
'Dry, withered' — and, in older records, pinching or peeling off skin.
The Guangyun, a Song-dynasty Chinese pronunciation dictionary, glossed it as 枯 — 'dry, withered.' Taiwan's Ministry of Education variant-character dictionary, consulted in its 2024 online edition, notes that the far older Shuowen dictionary never recorded it and lists broader senses: pinching off or peeling skin, and something slanted or disordered.
You will almost never meet it in modern writing — it survives as a dictionary entry and in variant lists, which is why finding 㿱 usually means decoding or typing a rare glyph.
Is 㿱 an emoji reaction?
No — it is plain text; ask what the sender meant.
Nothing in the glyph encodes a mood. A lone 㿱 usually means someone is showing you the character itself — from a dictionary, a name, or a font test — so ask which word or source they had in mind.
Specialised and lexicographic — outside a Chinese-text context it needs an explanation.
Do not guess an emoji mood; a lone 㿱 means 'look this character up', so ask for the source.
Who writes 㿱
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Questions people ask
2How do you pronounce 㿱?
xué — a second, rising tone. That reading, not the shape, is how dictionaries and input methods find it.
Why does 㿱 show as a box?
A font gap. Your device's fonts do not contain this rare character, so the system draws an empty placeholder; a fuller CJK font displays it properly.
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How to type or find 㿱
- Search it as
- xué · xue · 3ff1 · u+3ff1 · dry · withered · decayed · scrape
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㿱\3FF1Codes and encoding1 code points
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