What 㿸 means
It describes skin coming away from the body. Dictionary glosses also give it a sense of skin itself. An entry in Guangya, a Chinese dictionary from the early 3rd century CE, places it among words for peeling and separation.
Later rhyme dictionaries list 㿸 alongside the variant forms 𥀗 and 𥀤. As of 2026, regional listings give it a skin-grime sense in Hakka and Xiang, two Chinese language varieties; a Cantonese dictionary records 老泥 for the same idea. 牙㿸 names dental plaque in Changsha and Pingxiang, which are places, and in Gan and Xiang, which are regional language varieties.
Treat 㿸 as a word, not a reaction.
Use it alone only when both people share the dialect or source text. Otherwise, add the surrounding word: 㿸 is a lexical form, not a stock reaction.
Lexical and regional; a standalone message feels specialized.
Alone, it may look like an unexplained dictionary character.
Who writes 㿸
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsSkin peeling or separating; the older lexical sense.
Combination ideas
2Questions people ask
1Why does 㿸 show as a box?
As of 2026, a box usually means the active font or app cannot display this character. Switch to a CJK font that covers it.
How to type or find 㿸
- Search it as
- wǎn · mán · peeling skin · skin grime · 牙㿸 · 㿸圿子 · 皴 · Hakka
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㿸\3FF8wan3) or mán (man2), then check uncommon-character results.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

