殢 CJK Unified Ideograph-6BA2

What 殢 means

Read 殢 as lingering, clinging, or indulging in its object.

An older dictionary gloss preserves “extremely exhausted.” The earliest concrete examples surfaced here are Tang period poems: 殢長安 is lingering in Chang’an, 殢著春風 is clinging to spring wind, and 殢酒 is indulgence in wine. As of 2026, no source reviewed here establishes a pre-Tang manuscript or inscription first attestation. Its construction is phonetic-semantic: 歹 is the meaning component and 帶 the sound component, not a picture with a known inventor.

By the Song period, 殢雲尤雨 uses the character in a euphemism for intimate love. Later dictionary examples preserve the related senses “linger,” “entangle,” and “indulge.” The related form 𣨼 is listed as simplified, while 帶 places 殢 in a sound series that includes 滯; that historical relationship does not make the two interchangeable.

How do I type 殢?

Use pinyin tì, then select 殢; Cangjie is more exact.

The catch is selection: tì shares its syllable with many candidates in a Chinese IME. The CUHK database lists Cangjie 一弓大心月 (MNKPB).

Literary and rare; it signals classical Chinese more than ordinary chat.

In 殢雲尤雨, it is an intimacy euphemism, not a neutral weather phrase.

Who writes 殢

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Don't confuse it with

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𣨼

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Dictionaries list it as the simplified counterpart; it is not a random font substitute.

滯

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The common character means stagnating or delaying; 殢 is the rare 歹-plus-帶 form.

Combination ideas

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Indulging in wine; a classical phrase for drinking away an idle day.

A classical euphemism for deep romantic or sexual intimacy.

Clinging to spring wind; figurative attachment to a season or feeling.

Questions people ask

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Why does 殢 look different in another font?

It can. As of 2026, Taiwan's CNS11643 database says Windows 10 and later include a default glyph; a box or fallback means font coverage is missing, not that the meaning changed.