What 絧 means
It names a kind of cloth or describes passage that runs straight through.
Dictionary records give 絧 a name for a kind of cloth and glosses for moving slowly yet straight through, being connected, or reaching far. The phrase around it decides which old sense fits.
In the Book of Han, a Chinese historical chronicle completed around 82 CE, the biography of the writer Yang Xiong uses 鴻絧 for motion running straight onward.
What does 絧 mean in a chat?
A bare message gives too little context to choose a sense.
Ask what text or source it came from; the recorded meanings range from a cloth name to descriptions of motion.
Why might 絧 look or type differently?
Fonts and Japanese input methods may not support it consistently.
Japanese reference data calls 絧 environment-dependent and, as of 2026, lists no JIS X 0213 or Shift_JIS mapping. A font fallback can change its appearance. In a compatible editor, Unicode hexadecimal input avoids relying on those Japanese mappings.
Classical and lexicographic; by itself, 絧 gives little clue which old sense is intended.
A bare 絧 does not tell you whether the source means cloth or motion.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsCombination ideas
1Questions people ask
1Why does 絧 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 絧
絧\7D67Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.