What 竢 means
It means “wait,” “await,” or “wait until.”
The Chinese character dictionary Shuowen Jiezi analyzes 竢 as 立 (“stand”) plus 矣, a grammatical particle, and glosses it with 待 (“wait”).
Chinese references list 竢 as a variant of 俟, the customary form. Japanese references also record the verb 竢つ, read まつ (matsu), meaning “to wait.”
An uncommon, literary spelling in Chinese.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 竢 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.
How to type 竢
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 7AE2, then Alt+X to get 竢.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-7ae2”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 7ae2, then Enter or Space.
HTML
竢CSS
\7AE2Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
竢
HTML hex
竢
CSS content
content: "\7AE2";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%AB%A2
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.