What 擽 means
It depends on the language and the sentence. Japanese 擽る (kusuguru) means to tickle, from a poke in the ribs to teasing curiosity or vanity. Chinese sources give the same glyph other lives: striking, brushing, and exhausting. A lone 擽 settles nothing.
The character evolved, it was not invented for chat. 擽 is not recorded in Shuowen, while a glyph reference shows a clerical-form example attributed to Eastern Han 王孝淵碑. In Japan the related verb こそぐる is attested in 新撰字鏡 (898-901). Hand 扌 signals action and 樂 supplies sound.
What if someone sends only 擽?
Treat it as an unresolved language clue. A bare glyph cannot tell you whether the sender means Japanese tickling, emotional appeal, or a Chinese dictionary sense. Ask which word they meant when your reply depends on it.
Write the full word when it matters: Japanese 心を擽る or 脇の下を擽る for a precise tickle, or the ordinary Chinese word your reader expects.
Marked and language-specific: a character to decode, not a shared reaction.
Bare 擽 can read as tickle or strike; do not send it bare.
Who writes 擽
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsTickle the skin and provoke a laugh.
Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
2Questions people ask
2Is 擽 an emoji?
No. It is a language character, so your font draws it and context supplies the reading.
Why does 擽 look different?
It can. A 2024 variant record warns display modes and system fonts affect the visible form; compare the whole glyph.
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How to type or find 擽
- Search it as
- tickle · kusuguru · strike · lue · yue
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
擽\64FDCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.