What 佁 means
The earliest secure gloss is “foolish-looking.” The Eastern Han Shuowen Jiezi, a character dictionary, analyzes 佁 as 亻 plus 台 for sound. A graph on a bronze vessel from the late Spring and Autumn period has been read as 佁, but that reading is disputed.
In the Han-era compound 佁儗, it means held back or hesitant. In Liu Zongyuan’s Tang essay, 佁然 describes fish shadows still on the streambed.
Literary and dictionary-like; alone, it looks like a quote fragment.
Alone, it is too ambiguous for a confident reaction.
Who writes 佁
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Questions people ask
1Why does 佁 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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佁\4F41ai and choose the candidate; for the classical compound, type chi and select its character.Codes and encoding1 code points
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