What 蝬 means
It denotes a shellfish described as resembling a clam. Guo Pu’s Jin-era river poem 江賦 includes 三蝬 in a list of aquatic creatures; the passage is dated around 318. Its commentary draws on a natural-history account associated with Linhai and describes the creature as clam-like.
As of 2024, 蝬 is not listed in Shuowen, an early Chinese character dictionary. Later dictionaries preserve the shellfish sense; as of 2026, no modern chat or symbolic meaning is established, so use 蝬 for the classical or dictionary term rather than as a clam reaction.
Its register is classical or lexicographic; it reads like a dictionary term.
Combination ideas
1Questions people ask
1Why does 蝬 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.
How to type 蝬
蝬\876CCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.