What 蠿 means
蠿 is used in the spider name 蠿蟊.
An early written record appears in 《說文解字》, a Chinese dictionary dated 121 CE, in the Eastern Han period. It gives 蠿蟊 as a name for a spider that spins a web; later lexicons preserve the same spider-name sense.
The dictionary's analysis of 蠿 identifies 𢇍 as a sound-bearing component and calls it an ancient form of 絕. The same dictionary tradition connects the spider term with 蝃蝥 and records 𧖀 as another written form of 蠿.
Is 蠿 an emoji?
No; its appearance follows your text font, not emoji artwork.
Use 蠿 when discussing the historical term or the character itself. As of 2026, no stable emoji, chat, or folk-shorthand meaning is established; in a message, read it as a rare written character and use the surrounding words to infer the sender's intent.
Text fonts can draw its dense strokes differently. If the glyph is missing, that is a font-coverage problem rather than a second meaning.
A historical-dictionary term; outside a classical-text or lexicon context, using 蠿 reads as a deliberate choice of a rare character.
Its documented spider sense belongs to 蠿蟊; 蠿 alone is not a general spider symbol.
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 蠿 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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- 蠿蟊 · 蝃蝥 · 𧖀 · Chinese spider term · web-spinning spider name · Mandarin Pinyin input 蠿 · variant glyph 蠿 · 𢇍 in 蠿
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
蠿\883Fzhuo; dictionaries list two Mandarin readings, so inspect the candidate list.VXXJ; some layouts may require choosing 蠿 from the candidate list.SILII; other mappings exist, so check whether your installed layout offers 蠿.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.