What 爎 means
爎 is 燎's variant for burning, torches, and ritual fire.
Depending on the phrase, this family can refer to setting fire, a torch or beacon, clearing vegetation by fire, roasting, making something bright, or burning brushwood as an offering to Heaven.
Its older graph 尞 appears in Shang oracle-bone writing, inscriptions carved on animal bones and turtle shells, around 1200 BCE; it represented wood burning in ritual use. Later writers added 火, the fire sign, beside 尞 to form 燎. 爎 is listed as a variant of that form.
Is 爎 different from 燎?
爎 is a listed variant of 燎, not a separate fire word.
Chinese examples such as 燎原 and 庭燎 are written with 燎, the standard related form; their neighboring characters narrow the reading to a spreading blaze or a ceremonial torch.
Japanese entries also use this word family for a beacon fire and for burning away.
Rare and historical-looking; its main distinction is the variant spelling.
Use 燎 when familiarity matters; 爎 is its variant.
Who writes 爎
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What it means when someone sends it to you
4 readingsA spreading blaze; figuratively, something growing beyond control.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 爎 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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How to type or find 爎
- Search it as
- 燎 · liao · ryo · kagaribi · burning · ritual fire · torch · fire character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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