What 僼 means
僼 is a rare Chinese character for a legendary immortal. Historical Chinese dictionaries record it in the name 偓㒥, also written 偓僼. Chinese references give the Mandarin Pinyin reading fēng, with a high, level tone. Japanese references also record hō, the conventional Japanese reading for a Chinese-origin character, pronounced with a long “o.”
Records for 僼 sit in an old Chinese dictionary tradition: 玉篇, a character dictionary compiled in 543, and later works including 廣韻, 集韻, 類篇, 四聲篇海, and 正字通. The edition cited for this entry is a later printed copy from China's Yuan dynasty; 543 dates the compilation of 玉篇, not that copy.
Someone sent me 僼. What does it mean?
Ask what reference the sender has in mind. The documented sense is a rare literary name, so an isolated character does not reveal whether it is quoted, used as a name, or intended another way.
Literary and archaic; in everyday conversation it reads as a reference that needs its surrounding text.
A bare 僼 does not explain the sender's intended reference; ask before treating it as a reaction.
Who writes 僼
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsAsk what reference the sender has in mind; the glyph alone does not supply it.
Questions people ask
1Why does 僼 show as a square?
It is usually a font-coverage issue. A fallback font may show a box or a different design; the underlying text character remains 僼. A font that includes the character can display it.
How to type or find 僼
- Search it as
- 僼 · 㒥 · 偓僼 · 偓㒥 · 偓佺 · fēng · feng · 仙人
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
僼\50FCCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.


