What 畍 means
畍 is a variant spelling of 界, meaning a boundary, limit, or domain.
A silk manuscript from the Mawangdui tombs, sealed in 168 BCE, writes the related word as 畍. Mawangdui is the name of the ancient tomb site where the manuscript was found.
Historical references preserve both layouts: 畍 places its two parts side by side, while 界 stacks them. References differ on which layout they treat as the primary form.
Is 畍 an old form of 界?
They are variant forms of the same boundary word.
The word reaches beyond a literal boundary: 界 can mean a limit, a sphere of activity, a Buddhist realm, or a scientific classification. Read 畍 in its surrounding term; its older shape does not by itself add a different meaning.
Should I send 畍 in an ordinary message?
Use 界 in ordinary modern Chinese or Japanese prose.
畍 is a marked historical or variant spelling, suited to a quotation or deliberate transcription. Outside that context, readers may mistake it for a typo.
Marked and antiquarian; it reads as a deliberate historical or variant form, not ordinary modern writing.
For the everyday word, use 界; 畍 may look like a typo.
Who writes 畍
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsAn older written form of 界; interpret it as boundary, limit, or domain.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 畍 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 畍
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畍\754D754D; typing 界 returns a different character.WOLL (田人中中); XWOLL (難田人中中) is also listed.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.