What 毄 means
It means things striking each other—an impact or collision.
The Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary from the Han period, defines 毄 as things striking each other, like carts colliding. It explains the written form through 殳, a striking weapon, and 軎, a fitting at the end of a cart axle.
A form of 毄 appears on the Shuihudi Qin slips, bamboo records from a Qin tomb dated to 217 BCE; it is an early witness, not an origin date.
How did 毄’s meaning develop?
The core sense is impact, but the settings vary.
The Kaogongji, a handbook on craft production from the Eastern Zhou period, uses 毄 in technical writing about striking weapons and wiping a bow before use. Bamboo slips from the Han period also record it as a borrowed character for “bind” or “arrest.”
𣪠 is a recorded variant form. In the historical analysis of 擊, 毄 supplies the sound component while 手 (“hand”) supplies the action component; 擊 is related but distinct.
Historical and technical; the surrounding sentence identifies whether the sense is impact, weapon use, bow care, or borrowed “bind” or “arrest.”
Who writes 毄
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Questions people ask
1Why is 毄 missing in my font?
It usually means the chosen font lacks the glyph; an app may try another CJK font and still show nothing. As of 2026, Noto says its CJK fonts cover Han characters in Unicode’s Basic Multilingual Plane.
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How to type or find 毄
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- 毄 meaning · 毄 𣪠 · 毄 6BC4 · 毄 jī · 毄 jí · 毄 JRHNE · 毄 input
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
毄\6BC4\u6BC4; in HTML, use 毄.JRHNE (the key sequence 十口竹弓水).jī or jí in a Mandarin pinyin input method; its rare-character coverage may not include 毄.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.