What 愾 means
It means a long sigh, or literary anger and resentment.
You meet it in the Shijing's Xia Quan: 愾我寤歎，念彼周京 — waking with a sigh, longing for Zhou's capital. That is political grief, not a texted sigh. Built around 氣 for sound, it later leans toward anger and shared hostility in fixed compounds, close to 慨 and 喟.
Literary and rare alone; clearest for anger inside fixed compounds.
Is 愾 safe to send alone? Usually no: add surrounding words if you mean anger.
Who writes 愾
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsDeliberate classical sigh, not casual mood — ask what they meant.
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 愾 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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How to type or find 愾
- Search it as
- kai · kai4 · 忾 · 愾然 · 憤愾 · 敵愾 · sigh · anger
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
愾\613ECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.