CJK character 竩

竩 is a written variant of 誼.

In Mandarin, it is read as yì, roughly like “yee” with a falling fourth tone. 竩 shares the character component 宜, a graphic building block, with 誼, but uses 立 where 誼 uses 言. The 誼 word family includes friendship and fitting relationships; the related 義 character carries the idea of rightness or principle. These connections do not make the characters interchangeable.

The related 義 line appears in much older oracle-bone and bronze inscriptions—early Chinese writing carved on bone or cast in bronze—and later connects with ritual propriety and rightness. That history helps explain the semantic link; it does not date the spelling 竩.

What does 竩 mean when someone sends it?

Treat a lone 竩 as a character reference or quotation.

The character alone gives no reliable emotional cue. Someone may be pointing out this spelling or quoting a source; ask what passage or form they mean if the context is unclear. In ordinary modern Chinese writing about friendship, 誼 is used in traditional characters and 谊 in simplified characters. Use 竩 when a source prints that exact variant.