What 寽 means
It means taking something with the fingers, or an old metal-weight unit.
The graph depicts one hand holding an object while another takes it; dictionaries gloss the action as grasping, pinching, or stroking with the fingers. 捋 adds a hand-shaped component, the hand radical, to this early form. Later Chinese dictionaries connect 寽 with 鋝 for the weight-unit sense; 鋝 adds the metal component, and 锊 is its simplified form.
Why does 寽 appear on bronze vessels?
It recorded metal weights in gifts, penalties, and exchanges.
Bronze inscriptions—texts cast or engraved on vessels—use 寽 in records of royal gifts, assessed penalties, and exchanges. The 師旂鼎, a bronze vessel, records a metal-weight penalty for failed military service. During later transmission, a central element was sometimes confused with 爰; that graphic confusion does not make the characters synonyms.
A specialist historical character: it fits a quotation, dictionary discussion, or bronze-inscription context.
For the finger action, use the later hand-radical form 捋.
Who writes 寽
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Questions people ask
2Why does 寽 look different in some fonts?
It can. As of 2026, a Japanese character reference describes its display as environment-dependent, so fonts and text environments can draw its components differently. A changed shape alone does not mean the encoded character changed.
How is 寽 read in Japanese?
Japanese dictionaries list the Chinese-derived readings リツ and リチ, with meanings such as taking or pinching something with the fingers.
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