What 欪 means
欪 is a rare classical character with several historical senses. In 咄欪, dictionaries gloss it as “shameless”; other entries list rebuking, speaking, exhaling, or laughing. These are historical meanings, not one fixed sense to assign whenever you encounter it.
The earliest dictionary attestation comes from the Shuowen Jiezi, a Chinese character dictionary compiled in the Eastern Han. Traditional character analysis identifies 出 as the phonetic component in 欪, the part that suggests sound. Chinese character dictionaries also record 欪 as a written variant of 咥.
Archaic and specialist; on its own, it leaves the intended historical sense unclear.
Alone, it may not tell the reader which meaning you intend.
Who writes 欪
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Questions people ask
2Why does 欪 show as a box?
It can. As of 2026-09-10, encoding 欪 does not guarantee that every installed font can display it; choose a font with support or inspect it in a character viewer.
Does 欪 have one reading?
No. Historical Chinese dictionaries give multiple readings, including the Mandarin Pinyin spellings chù and xì. Roughly, chù sounds like “choo” with the voice falling; xì begins like “shee,” also with the voice falling.
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How to type or find 欪
- Search it as
- chù · xì · shameless · rebuke · laugh · 咄欪 · 咥 · Cangjie
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
欪\6B2ACodes and encoding1 code points
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