What 詇 means
It can mean “to know early,” “wise,” “ask,” or “tell.”
Xu Shen’s Chinese character dictionary, the Shuowen jiezi, compiled in 121 CE, glosses 詇 as 早知, “to know early.” Other Chinese dictionaries also list “wise,” “to tell or report,” and “to ask,” so the sentence sets the best English gloss.
What do its parts tell you?
言 points to speech; 央 guides the sound.
Chinese lexicographers analyze 詇 with 言 as its speech-related component and 央 as its sound guide. That makes 央 a structural relative of 詇; it does not mean the characters share a definition.
Why does 詇 show as a box?
The active font may not include 詇.
The character is text, and the font used by an app draws its shape. A Chinese font with broader character coverage may display it; handwriting input can help locate it in an input method.
Classical and lexicographical; use 詇 when discussing the character or a text that contains it.
“To know early” is not its only dictionary meaning.
Who writes 詇
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Questions people ask
1Why does 詇 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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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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