Chinese character 矤

It adds force: “how much more” or “not to mention.”

The classical Chinese connector 況且 means roughly “what’s more”; 矤 can do a similar job, carrying the previous point forward. Dictionaries also record an additive “also” sense and “tooth root” in a traditional etiquette phrase about smiling. The surrounding words decide which meaning fits.

What does 矤 mean when someone sends it?

Treat it as text; the sentence supplies its tone.

The glyph alone gives no reliable social cue. Read the surrounding Chinese; a quotation may preserve one of its other dictionary senses.

Where did 矤 come from?

An early record appears in a Han dynasty dictionary.

Yang Xiong’s Western Han regional-word book Fangyan records the word for “long” as 矧 in Eastern Qi and 呂 in Song and Lu. This documents regional variation in the wider lexical family, not that 矤 itself always meant “long.”

One early record of the exact written form appears in Xu Shen’s Shuowen Jiezi, a Chinese character dictionary compiled in the Eastern Han and completed around 100 CE. Its entry describes the character as marking an extending word and links 矢 to speech moving forward like an arrow: a grammatical job, not a picture.