What 翳 means
翳 means screen or shade, and can name eye opacity.
A bronze from the early Chinese Western Zhou, around 1000 BCE, shows a feathered canopy. The later mythic Classic of Mountains and Seas depicts Xiahou Qi holding 翳 in the Nine Generations dance.
It also extends to concealment and dimness. 羽 marks feathers; 殹 supplies sound; 瞖 is an alternative form. Japanese literary readings are かげ (shade) and かすみ (dim vision).
Compounds set the register: literary cover imagery or a medical term for clouded sight.
Who writes 翳
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsIt screens the sun.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 翳 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 翳
- Search it as
- yì · yi4 · 眼翳 · 白翳 · 荫翳 · 翳日 · 瞖
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
翳\7FF3Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.