What 伹 means
It has a Chinese dictionary sense of “clumsy” or “unskillful.” The Eastern Han Chinese character dictionary 《說文解字》 (121 CE) defines it as 拙 (“unskillful”) and describes 亻 (“person”) as the meaning part and 且 as the sound part. Later dictionaries also gloss it as “dull” or “shallow.”
Why is 伹 linked to 徂?
One Chinese dictionary tradition records 伹 as a variant of 徂. In literary Chinese, 徂 can mean “go” or “pass away”; this variant entry is separate from the “clumsy” sense. Japanese references also associate 伹 with つたない, a word meaning “unskillful” or “inept.” These are different Chinese and Japanese dictionary traditions.
How do I type 伹?
A Traditional Chinese Cangjie keyboard can enter it as OBM. OBM represents the components 人月一; the letters are the input code for those parts. On a Mandarin Pinyin keyboard, which spells Mandarin sounds with Latin letters, enter qu and check the extended candidates; this uncommon character may not appear in the default list.
Literary and dictionary-like; pointed if used to call a person clumsy or dull.
Calling someone 伹 can sound like “you’re clumsy or dull.”
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1Why does 伹 appear as a box?
It is a font-coverage problem: a font without 伹 cannot draw its glyph, so the device needs a font that includes the character.
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