What 勯 means
It means exhausted force or breath.
An early Warring States attestation places it in Lüshi Chunqiu: a strongman’s force gives out pulling an ox’s tail. Later dictionaries link 勯 with 殚/殫 (“exhaust”); 力 marks force and 亶 its sound, making this an evolved word, not a one-off sign.
As of 2026, Taiwan Hakka writing keeps 勯忒/勯撇 for lost breath, near-death exhaustion, or fainting; outside that dialect or a classical quotation, it is obscure.
As of 2026, it is obscure classical or Hakka-dialectal writing, not a general-purpose reaction.
Do not translate 勯忒 as “dead”; Hakka usage includes breathlessness and fainting.
Who writes 勯
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsStrength gives out as an ox resists.
Questions people ask
1Why does 勯 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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