What 俔 means
In its classical use, it means “like” or “as.”
A clear early literary example appears in the Classic of Poetry: the royal hymn 大雅·大明 uses 俔 in 大邦有子，俔天之妹 to compare a bride to Heaven’s sister. One proposed analysis reads 亻 (“person”) 見 (“see”) as one person watching another; this is a proposal, not an established origin. An oracle-bone inscription—a text carved on bone or shell—is also recorded, but its meaning remains unsettled as of 2026.
Later Chinese sources give 俔 other branches: it can mean a spy or a feather used as a ship’s wind-vane, while the doubled form 俔俔 describes fearful or cautious behavior. Korean royal writers reused 俔天之妹 as praise for a queen.
What does 俔 mean on its own?
A lone 俔 needs its phrase or language to decode.
Chinese sources mark its standalone senses as historical. Japanese kanji references also list it for “watch secretly” and “spy,” but it is outside Japan’s standard-use kanji list. If someone sent only 俔, ask which phrase or language they mean before settling on “spy.”
Literary and historical in Chinese; Japanese references retain an uncommon kanji sense of spying or watching secretly.
A lone 俔 does not automatically mean “spy”; its classical phrase uses “like” or “as.”
Who writes 俔
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What it means when someone sends it to you
4 readings“Like Heaven’s sister”: a bride is praised by comparison.
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2Questions people ask
1Can Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts draw 俔 differently?
Yes. As of 2026, CJK fonts can use different regional glyph conventions for the same encoded Han character; a change in stroke shape alone does not mean the text contains a different character.
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How to type or find 俔
- Search it as
- 俔 · 伣 · 俔天之妹 · 俔俔 · qian · xian · spy · wind vane
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
俔\4FD4Codes and encoding1 code points
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