What 䶜 means
It names a tooth sound or an ivory-whitening treatment.
Old Chinese dictionaries give two literal senses: the sound made by teeth and a treatment for whitening ivory.
Where was 䶜 first recorded?
The earliest cited dictionary source for 䶜 is 玉篇, compiled in 543.
玉篇 is a Chinese character dictionary. It puts 䶜 in its 齒 (“teeth”) section, recording the tooth-sound sense, and groups it with 䶤 and 䶘, other entries for chewing sounds.
Later rhyme dictionaries, reference books that group characters by sound, 廣韻 and 集韻 retain that sense and add the ivory-whitening treatment. In its written form, 䶜 combines 齒 and 告.
Historical and specialist; its two recorded senses come from old character dictionaries.
As of 2026, an empty box for 䶜 means the app’s available fonts lack its glyph; the character itself is unchanged.
Who writes 䶜
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Questions people ask
1Why does 䶜 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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