What 耎 means
Its core senses are softness and weakness; classical texts add retreat.
Chinese reference works link 耎 as an older form of traditional 軟; 软 is its simplified counterpart.
The Shuowen, an early Chinese dictionary, glosses it as a front part that grows gradually broader than its rear. Forms associated with it appear on Qin-era slips and in Western Han material, alongside a seal-script form.
It reads as literary or archaic; modern Chinese normally uses traditional 軟 or simplified 软.
In everyday writing, 耎 can look like an unintended old spelling.
Who writes 耎
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Questions people ask
1Why does 耎 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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