What 䯅 means
It describes a horse with a swift gait.
It refers to a horse’s quick movement, not speed in general; dictionaries gloss it as “a swift horse.”
The old song 《陇上歌》 (“Song of Longshang”), about the warrior Chen An around 323, uses the related form 䯀 in a line describing his horse.
How is 䯅 read in Mandarin and Japanese?
The readings differ, but the horse-gait sense is the same.
Mandarin references give niè, roughly “nyeh” with a falling tone. A Japanese character dictionary gives じょう, roughly “joe” with a longer o.
Why can 䯅 look different across fonts?
A font can change its visible shape.
On web font samples checked on 2026-10-09, 䯅 has different stroke shapes across fonts. A different drawing does not mean the text contains a different character.
Historical and dictionary-bound; it fits a quotation or a discussion of old horse vocabulary.
Alone, it does not clearly mean “fast” in general.
Who writes 䯅
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Questions people ask
1Why does 䯅 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 䯅
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- nie · niè · nie4 · jou · swift horse · fast horse · horse gait
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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