Chinese character 硱

It describes a rough, craggy or looming stone. Dictionaries record it in 硱磳, a phrase for a stone's appearance, and 硱碖, a description of a stone seeming to hang as if about to fall.

The classical Chinese poem 招隐士 (“Calling the Recluse”) is attributed to the Western Han and preserved in an Eastern Han textual tradition. Its received wording commonly has 碅磳磈硊; dictionaries also record 硱 for the corresponding stone-description line. These are textual variants in that passage, so follow the edition when quoting it.