What 侽 means
It is a variant of 男, meaning “man” or “male.”
The medieval Chinese character dictionary Longkan Shoujian labels 侽 a 俗 form, meaning a nonstandard written variant; later reference works list it under 男.
The form adds 亻, the left-side form of 人 (“person”), to 男. The difference is orthographic; it does not mark a separate everyday sense.
Is 侽 different from 男?
No; it is a variant spelling, not a separate everyday meaning.
Chinese references give 侽 the core senses of 男—man, male, and son—along with older entries for a son referring to himself and a historical fifth-rank title. Japanese references list it outside the standard-use kanji set and record historical readings, without establishing a distinct everyday Japanese sense.
Historical and orthographic; choosing 侽 instead of 男 reads as a deliberate variant spelling.
For ordinary modern Chinese, use 男; 侽 may look like an error or a deliberate old spelling.
Who writes 侽
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsRead it through 男: man, male, son, or an older lexical sense.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 侽 appear as a box?
Usually, the selected font lacks a glyph for 侽. Unicode text can contain the character even when the font cannot draw it; switch to a CJK font that supports it.
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侽\4FBDCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.