What 蜽 means
It names an uncanny spirit of mountains and streams. In 國語, a classical Chinese text, 蝄蜽 is grouped among spirits of wood and stone, distinct from named spirits of water and earth. The Han-period Chinese character dictionary 說文解字 glosses 蜽 as 蛧蜽 and analyzes it as 虫, the insect element, plus 兩, used for its sound.
蜽 and 魍魎: how are they related?
They belong to the same spirit-name family. 蜽 usually appears at the end of 蛧蜽 or 蝄蜽; dictionaries also connect those forms with 魍魎, while 罔兩 is another written form. On its own, 蜽 gives too little context to identify a sender’s mood; ask which word or passage they mean before assigning one.
Literary and lexicographic; by itself, it reads like a rare-word reference rather than a conversational reaction.
Alone, it does not reveal the sender’s intended mood.
Who writes 蜽
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What it means when someone sends it to you
4 readingsA literary or dictionary reference; its intended mood is unclear.
Questions people ask
1Why does 蜽 appear as an empty box?
That is usually a font-coverage issue: the selected font may not contain 蜽. An installed CJK font with this glyph can display it.
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How to type or find 蜽
- Also called
- 蛧蜽 · 蝄蜽 · 魍魎
- Search it as
- 蜽 definition · liǎng · wǎngliǎng
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
蜽\873DCodes and encoding1 code points
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