What 殴 means
It means to hit, beat, or strike.
In Chinese, 殴打 means beating or assault, and 斗殴 means a fight. In Japanese, 殴る is the verb “to hit.”
How did 殴 develop from 毆?
殴 is the modern form corresponding to traditional 毆.
It appears in 說文解字, an early Chinese character dictionary. In the received Zhou ritual tradition, related uses describe striking or driving away birds, water creatures, and harmful spirits.
A standard analysis of 毆 treats 殳 as the meaning component associated with striking and 區 as the sound component. 殴 is the simplified counterpart of 毆.
What does 殴り書き mean?
It means rough, hurried writing in Japanese.
Here, striking is a metaphor for writing forcefully and carelessly, not for hitting a person.
A Japanese dictionary records the figurative sense in an example from 1679.
Literal Chinese compounds and Japanese 殴る point to physical violence; 殴り書き is a set writing metaphor.
Treat a bare 殴 as physical force unless a fixed compound signals the metaphor.
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2 readingsA literal beating, assault, or fight.
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1Why does 殴 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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- 毆
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