What 乁 means
Its recorded senses are “flow” and “move.”
The Shuowen, an early Chinese character dictionary, glosses 乁 as “flow” and describes its form as the reverse of 乀. The later Yupian dictionary gives “move; relocate.” Chinese lexicons also list 乁 as an old form of 及 and a variant of 乀; Japanese character references list it as an alternate form of 移 (“move”) and 及.
Why does 乁 appear in shrug faces?
In a shrug kaomoji, 乁 is the raised left arm.
As of 2026, kaomoji collections use it opposite a right-side arm such as ㄏ. The pair frames a face: the arms make the shrug, while the center sets its mood. Here 乁 is read visually, not as a word.
Reference-heavy alone, playful inside a recognizable kaomoji.
A lone 乁 can look like an unknown character or typo; the full face makes the shrug legible.
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2 readingsDictionary senses include “flow” and “move”; references also link it to 及, 乀, and 移.
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1Why does 乁 show as a box?
As of 2026, font support and stroke design for 乁 vary by device; a box means the selected font cannot display its glyph.
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
乁\4E41Codes and encoding1 code points
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