What 胲 means
胲 names old body parts and a chemistry family.
An Eastern Han dictionary, 《说文解字》, glosses 胲 as flesh at the hairy part of the big toe. Its graph joins 肉 (“flesh”) with 亥, which supplies the sound. Classical writing uses 頰胲 for cheek flesh; chemistry gives it a specialized reading for hydroxylamine derivatives.
Literary or specialist; surrounding Chinese words supply the reading.
For ordinary modern Chinese “cheek,” use 颊 (traditional 頰); 胲 is the classical cheek-flesh term.
Who writes 胲
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsBig-toe flesh; Mandarin gāi, like “guy,” high and level.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 胲 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 胲
- Search it as
- 胲 pinyin · 胲 chemistry · hydroxylamine · 羟胺 · toe · cheek
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
胲\80F2gai for body parts or hai for chemistry, then choose 胲.Codes and encoding1 code points
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