What 乵 means
乵 means to advance or enter.
Chinese character dictionaries gloss 乵 as an older equivalent of 进. 进 is the simplified Chinese form corresponding to traditional 進, so the link is lexical, not visual.
A 1537 printed edition from China’s Ming dynasty of 《经史通用古今直音》, a pronunciation reference book, preserves a printed attestation of 乵. That dates surviving print, not when the character was coined.
Why does 乵 look different in some fonts?
Font design and coverage change how 乵 appears.
Different CJK fonts can draw its strokes differently. A blank box or fallback character means the font cannot display 乵; use a font with CJK coverage when a document needs to show it reliably.
How can I type 乵?
In the Cangjie Chinese input method, enter YJU.
Cangjie builds characters from keyboard codes; YJU is the listed code for 乵. Support for rare characters varies by input method.
Archaic and dictionary-oriented; modern Chinese writing usually uses 进 or traditional 進 for this sense.
In a casual message, readers may mistake it for a typo or a mistaken form of 进.
Who writes 乵
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsAn older equivalent of 进 or 進: advancing or entering.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 乵 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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乵\4E75Codes and encoding1 code points
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