What 緀 means
It denotes decorative silk, with a separate sewing sense.
The oldest dictionary source cited for 緀 is Shuowen Jiezi (《說文解字》), an early Chinese character dictionary: 糸 is the silk-thread component, while 妻 supplies the sound.
In the Book of Songs (《詩經》), patterned brocade becomes a metaphor for slander: small faults are woven into an elaborate accusation. The transmitted poem writes 萋; dictionaries also record 緀, the graph with the silk component.
A 2024 entry in Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionary cites Qing writer Pu Songling’s Riyong suzi (《日用俗字》), a text about everyday words, for the vernacular sense “sewing clothes.”
Classical and specialist; it fits source quotation or textile vocabulary, not casual decoration.
Sent alone, it will not reliably tell a reader which sense you intend.
Who writes 緀
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Questions people ask
1Why does 緀 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.
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How to type or find 緀
- Also called
- 紪
- Search it as
- 萋 · patterned silk · sewing clothes · 貝錦
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
緀\7DC0Codes and encoding1 code points
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