What 狝 means
It names the autumn hunt, a ritual troop exercise. Classical writing divides the hunts into spring 蒐, summer 苗, autumn 狝, and winter 狩, with the 秋狝 military training side made explicit in old commentaries.
狝 origin is an evolved classical word, not a designed modern sign. You meet 獮 vs 狝 as old and compact forms of the same word; 獮 can also carry the extended sense “to kill.” Do not read it as everyday modern Chinese.
Classical and historical-text register; in chat it looks deliberately literary.
Do not use it as a generic hunting emoji.
Who writes 狝
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1Why does 狝 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 狝
- Also called
- 獮
- Search it as
- xian · xiǎn · 秋狝 · 秋獮 · hunt · autumn · kill
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
狝\72DDCodes and encoding1 code points
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