What 寈 means
It is an old written form of 青. In Mandarin, 青 can mean blue-green or green and is pronounced roughly “cheeng” on a high, level tone; pinyin writes that syllable qīng. Dictionaries gloss 寈 as the same character. Its roof marks an older spelling, not a new color word.
The trail is one of changing written forms, not a single invention. A recognizable ancestor of 青 appears in inscriptions on bronze vessels from the Western Zhou; roofed forms appear in Chu manuscripts and on Qin slips, narrow strips used for writing. Chinese character dictionaries preserve 寈 among ancient forms of 青.
How can I type 寈?
Use a Chinese pinyin IME or Unicode character entry. Enter qing or qīng and inspect the candidates; an IME may offer 青 without including 寈.
On desktop, Word or Outlook accepts 5BC8 followed by AltX; macOS supports Unicode Hex Input with Option; GNOME/GTK Linux uses CtrlShiftU, then 5bc8, then Space or Enter, as of 2026.
Historical and specialist; it reads like a preserved form in an old text or character dictionary.
For ordinary modern Chinese writing, 青 is the clearer form.
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1Why does 寈 show as a box?
The character is still 寈; your font or rendering system lacks a usable glyph for it. Try a font or app that supports this character.
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