What 嬍 means
Yes. 嬍 is a rare variant of 美. Chinese dictionaries equate them; older glosses of 美 also include “sweet.” 美 is the familiar written form, while 嬍 appears mainly in dictionaries and classical writing.
The written record for 美 reaches at least the Shang and Western Zhou periods: it appears in inscriptions on oracle bones—bones used in divination—and on bronze objects. This dates the evidence for 美, not the variant 嬍. The classical Chinese collection 丹崖集 uses 有嬍一士 to praise a man, showing 嬍 in literary use.
Literary and dictionary-like; 美 is clearer in ordinary writing.
Alone, 嬍 can look like a typo or display as a missing-glyph box.
Who writes 嬍
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Questions people ask
1Why does 嬍 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.
How to type or find 嬍
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
嬍\5B0DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.



