CJK Unified Ideograph-49FA

The same as 雄: xióng, “male.”

Read it like everyday 雄: “male bird,” then any male animal or man, and figuratively strong, eminent, heroic. The variant changes the spelling, not the word.

Dictionaries analyse 雄 as the bird element 隹 plus 厷 for the sound; 䧺 writes that sound-side as 右. A spelling variant, not a different sign.

Why does 䧺 use 右 instead of 厷?

A clerical-script spelling change that stuck.

Clerical script, the everyday handwriting of Han-dynasty clerks, freely redrew components. This exact form is already carved on the Eastern Han 武榮碑 — a memorial stele, an upright inscribed stone — dated 167 CE, where 雄’s left component is written like 右.

Later dictionaries kept the two identical: the Kangxi Dictionary, the standard reference of Qing China, says 䧺 is the same as 雄, and Japanese references file it under 雄 with senses like “brave” and “excel.”

How do I type 䧺?

Search xióng and pick the variant, or enter the code point.

Typing xióng offers 雄 first; the variant hides deeper in the candidate list. Japanese systems file it as a level-4 JIS kanji — the rarest tier — so a character-map or code-point search is the reliable route.

An empty box means the character is there but your font cannot draw it — switch to a font with wider CJK coverage and look for 右 left, 隹 right.