What 婾 means
It is a historical variant, so context decides the gloss.
The Eastern Han 《说文解字》 records the related form 媮 as 巧黠 (“clever” or “crafty”) and analyzes it as 女 plus 兪: a phonosemantic spelling, not a one-off invention. Later lexicons add “thin,” “enjoy,” “live on,” “seek acceptance,” and “steal.”
Is 婾 an old form of 偷, 愉, or 媮?
媮 is the direct variant; 偷 and 愉 are related reading branches.
Japanese references mark 婾 hyōgai and list とう, ゆ, and ぬすむ. Use it for dictionary or historical transcription, not as a casual replacement for 偷 or 愉. Copy it from the palette above.
Who writes 婾
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 婾 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 婾
- Also called
- 媮
- Search it as
- 婾 · 偷 · 愉 · tōu · yú · tou · yu · とう
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
婾\5A7ECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.