What 稭 means
It means stripped grain stalk or straw residue.
A Shuowen Jiezi entry presented in 121 CE defines it as grain straw with its outer skin removed, prepared as a mat for sacrifice to Heaven. The Shiji Fengshan account likewise describes 葅稭 as a simple ritual mat.
In Chinese, 稭 is a variant of 秸 for the stalk left after threshing. It names an agricultural material and its preparation, not a modern emotional signal.
Is 稭 the same as 秸?
Yes: 稭 is a recorded variant of 秸.
Taiwan's variant dictionary groups 稭 with 秸, 鞂, and 䕸. In Chinese source text those forms belong to the same straw word; do not treat 稭 as a second material merely because the right side looks different.
In medieval and early-modern Japan, dictionaries use 稭 in しべ and すべ for straw's inner core, straw debris, or straw footwear, and in みご for the stripped upper stem of a rice stalk. That is a Japanese lexical narrowing, not a new Chinese reading.
A learned or historical variant in Chinese; Japanese dictionaries retain it for specialized straw terms.
If you are writing Chinese, use 秸 unless you are preserving a source's spelling.
Who writes 稭
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsVariant of 秸: grain stalk or straw residue.
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Questions people ask
1Why can 稭 look different in Japanese text?
It can. CJK fonts may choose region-specific glyphs for one encoded character, and a rare Japanese use may fall back to a Chinese glyph. That is a font choice, not a different character.
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How to type or find 稭
- Also called
- 秸 · 鞂 · 䕸
- Search it as
- 稭 · jie · straw · grain stalk · straw residue · straw core · shibe · migo
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
稭\7A2DCodes and encoding1 code points
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