Chinese character 䪞

Use Mandarin phonetic input or Cangjie.

With Pinyin, the Latin-letter spelling system for Mandarin, enter zá; with Zhuyin (Bopomofo), enter ㄗㄚˊ. Cangjie is a shape-based input method; its code for this character is MKLSM. IBus Cangjie limits its default candidates to characters common in Hong Kong; enable “Rare Chinese characters” for broader coverage (documented 2026-09-10).

What does 䪞 mean?

It means “bad” or “evil”; it is also recorded as a surname.

The Taiwan Ministry of Education’s 2024 variant dictionary says Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary, does not record 䪞. Guangyun, a later Chinese rhyme dictionary, gives it the sense “evil” and lists it as a surname. That dictionary identifies 䪞 as a variant of 䨿.

Unicode chart images are representative, not required font designs, so CJK fonts can draw a character differently. As of 2025-02-25, a paper from the Ideographic Research Group flags a source-reference mismatch: China’s GB 7590-87 standard places 䪞 at 87-71, while Unicode’s then-current Chinese-source reference points to 87-72, a different form. This is a record mismatch, not a change of meaning.