What 䰡 means
It names a fierce ghost in classical Chinese.
The earliest traceable gloss cited for it is in the Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary. Its structure pairs 鬼, which marks the spirit category, with 失, which hints at the sound; together they write a supernatural term.
Later Chinese dictionaries associate it with 魑魅, a classical term for uncanny spirits. A passage in the Shanhaijing, the Classic of Mountains and Seas, uses it for spirits at Gangshan and records 𩳁 as a written form. A Japanese dictionary also records a sense of a spirit linked to calamity or epidemic.
What does someone sending 䰡 mean?
Read it as a quotation or an intentionally archaic reference.
Without shared context, the sender's intended reference is unclear. It can come across as literary, scholarly, or simply obscure.
Archaic and specialist; in a chat it suggests quotation, scholarship, or deliberate obscurity.
Without shared context, it can look like an unexplained old term.
Who writes 䰡
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA fierce ghost or harmful spirit named in the passage.
Questions people ask
2Will every device show 䰡 correctly?
No. As of 2026-09-10, display depends on font coverage; a system without the character may show a missing-glyph box or a fallback form.
Is 䰡 clear to send in an everyday chat?
Usually not without context. It is an archaic ghost term, so its reference may be unclear to someone who has not seen it in a quotation or classical-text discussion.
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How to type or find 䰡
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- ghost · fierce ghost · Chinese ideograph · classical Chinese · archaic character · chì
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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