CJK Unified Ideograph-5Fda

Context decides: 㦒忚 is about deceptive speech; 忚忚 is about reluctance.

The earliest attestation located is in the Han-dynasty Fangyan, a work made to explain regional words that differed across places. It records 㦒忚 as a term used south of Chu and Ying and around the eastern Yangtze for 欺謾 — deceitful or disrespectful speech. No single inventor is documented.

The Song-era Guangyun keeps the first sense as a manner of deceptive conduct. The Qing-era Kangxi Dictionary records the repeated form 忚忚 for a mind that does not want something. That repetition is a lexical form, not decorative emphasis.

Is 忚 a modern chat symbol?

No; it is a rare historical character, not an emoji or chat reaction.

A classical-text reader may recognize its dictionary glosses, but a modern reader seeing 忚 alone may need the surrounding sentence. Use it when quoting or discussing historical Chinese; do not send it bare expecting a familiar reaction.

How do I type 忚?

The palette is the reliable route; Cangjie can help if you know it.

Because this is a rare character, some input methods hide it with other uncommon or ancient characters. Enable the method's rare-character set if 忚 is missing from the candidate list.