Han character 䯙

It names a bone in the lower spine. The dictionary pairing 䯙 腰骨 uses 腰骨, Chinese for “lumbar bone,” meaning the bones in the lower back. That is the safest short translation without a source passage.

A Taiwanese variant-character dictionary also links 䯙 with 髆 and records a rib gloss; 髆 is chiefly glossed as “shoulder blade.” These are dictionary readings, not interchangeable spellings in every passage, so translate the source in context.

What does 䯙 mean when someone sends it?

A lone 䯙 needs context. It could be quoted from a text or sent for identification; the glyph alone does not tell you whether the intended bone is lumbar, rib, or shoulder blade. Ask which passage or dictionary entry the sender means.

Where did 䯙 come from?

The surviving trail is dictionary-based. 《說文解字》, an early Chinese dictionary compiled around 100 CE, includes 髆 as a shoulder-blade term but not the exact headword 䯙. 《集韻》, a later Chinese dictionary completed in 1039, records 䯙 and connects it to older glosses.

The character contains 骨, the element for “bone”; reference works connect its other element to 髆, in a tradition where character parts can hint at sound or record variant forms. Japanese reference works also gloss this rare glyph as a knee bone or shoulder bone.