What 胷 means
胷 means “chest” or “breast”; 胸 is the modern form.
Use 胸 in new Chinese prose. 胷 preserves the same word in a historical text, dictionary entry, or source-faithful quotation.
How are 胷, 胸, and 匈 connected?
They are historically connected spellings of the Chinese chest word.
The chest-writing line appears in Chu manuscripts written on narrow bamboo slips and silk during ancient China's Warring States period. The exact form 胷 appears in 五經文字, a Tang reference work for checking written character forms, compiled in the Dali era (766–779).
匈 was also used in the name 匈奴; adding a body-related component marked the chest meaning.
How do I type 胷?
Use a Unicode input method on a desktop.
A blank box means your current font or app lacks a glyph for 胷. The character in the text has not changed.
Historical, dictionary, or source-faithful; conspicuously nonstandard in routine modern Chinese.
Use 胸 in new Chinese prose; keep 胷 when preserving a source.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 胷 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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