What 姌 means
Slender, delicate-looking (rǎn). No single inventor is recorded in the sources checked; dictionaries treat it as an evolved descriptive character, with 女 marking the sense field and 冄 supplying the sound rǎn.
You almost always meet it inside 姌嫋, a Han-era literary phrase for delicate, flowing grace in the 子虛賦. Later dictionaries keep that slender sense and point readers to the compound; 姌袅 is its other written form, while 㚩 is its documented variant.
Classical and specialized; it signals literary diction or an intentional rare-character choice.
Alone, it may look like an unfamiliar name or typo; add context if you mean the classical sense.
Who writes 姌
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Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 姌 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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How to type or find 姌
- Search it as
- ran · rǎn · 姌嫋 · 姌袅 · 㚩 · slender · delicate · graceful
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
姌\59CCCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.