What 崿 means
It means a cliff, precipice, or steep mountain edge.
The earliest cited use is in 西京賦, a descriptive poem attributed to Zhang Heng during China's Han dynasty. That citation shows the word in literary landscape writing, not when the character was created.
Later dictionaries also give senses such as high or steep terrain. In compounds like 崖崿 and 峻崿, surrounding landscape words sharpen the image; repeated 崿崿 can describe high, jagged, or forbidding terrain.
If someone sends me 崿, what does it mean?
The character names terrain; it does not give a clear chat tone.
In a classical quotation, it points to a cliff or steep mountain edge. By itself in a casual message, the dictionary meaning cannot tell you why the sender chose it.
Treat an isolated 崿 as a rare character mention and ask what prompted it; it may be a quotation, lookup prompt, or display test.
Literary and archaic; it suits a text citation, place-name element, or deliberate rare-character choice.
Alone, it can look like a stray character; ask what the sender intended.
Who writes 崿
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA cliff or steep mountain edge.
Don't confuse it with
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1Why does 崿 show as a box?
Usually, the active font lacks this rare CJK character. A CJK font with broader coverage can display it; the text itself has not changed.
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How to type or find 崿
- Search it as
- cliff · precipice · 崿字 · 崿崿 · 崖崿 · 峻崿 · Pinyin · Wubi
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
崿\5D3Fe in a Mandarin Pinyin input method and scan the candidates; this rare character can be buried among homophones.mkkn in a Wubi layout that includes the character.urrs in a Cangjie input method.5d3f, then press Enter.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.