What 䭲 means
It means “fragrant”, and it almost never travels without 馜.
The character's origin, as far as anyone has traced it, is a dictionary page: the earliest attestation on record is an entry in the Jiyun, a Song-era rime dictionary that grouped characters by sound. Taiwan's Ministry of Education notes that the Shuowen — the much older Han-dynasty character dictionary — does not record it, so 䭲 joined the written tradition relatively late.
The Ming incense compendium 香乘 lists 䭲 and 馜 among the words for scent, and later dictionaries hold the same line. Its build is easy to read: 香 “fragrance” on the left, 奇 on the right carrying the sound — the whole is read yǐ. As of 2026 it has picked up no slang or chat sense; its career is the dictionary.
Lexical and obscure — it lives in dictionaries and old incense texts, not in everyday chat.
On its own it reads like a pasted dictionary entry, not a friendly “smells nice” reaction.
Who writes 䭲
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1Why does 䭲 show as a square?
A font gap — the typeface you are viewing it in lacks this rare Han glyph. Switch fonts or open it where a fuller CJK font is installed; the character itself is unchanged.
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How to type or find 䭲
- Search it as
- yi · yǐ · fragrant · aromatic · fragrance · sweet-smelling · 䭲馜 · 馜
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
䭲\4B72Codes and encoding1 code points
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