What 宻 means
Read 宻 as 密: dense, close, secret, or intimate.
The Tang dynasty character dictionary 干禄字书 records 宻 as 通 (“common writing”) and 密 as 正 (“formal writing”). The distinction mattered in official writing and examinations; it marked a writing convention, not a separate meaning.
An older dictionary gloss connects 密 with a mountain shaped like a hall; its recorded senses include dense, quiet, hidden, and intimate.
A historical variant; use 密 in standard modern Chinese.
In ordinary modern text, readers may mistake 宻 for a typo for 密.
Who writes 宻
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Questions people ask
1Why does 宻 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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