What 詧 means
詧 is a historical variant of 察, meaning “to examine closely.”
In a classical chronicle called the Qin Annals, 詧 describes examining You Yu’s report about terrain and military affairs. A bronze inscription from the late-Western-Zhou period already uses 察; 詧 is recorded separately in the Shuowen dictionary tradition.
Classical Chinese dictionaries also preserve a separate sense glossed as “correct speech.” Japanese references give readings specific to Japanese, so the text’s language and context matter.
Should I use 詧 or 察?
Use 察 in ordinary modern Chinese; reserve 詧 for an exact source form.
Taiwan’s Variant Character Dictionary files 詧 under 察, and the 1955 First List of Processed Variant Characters pairs 察〔詧〕. That marks 詧 as a historical variant rather than the neutral modern spelling.
Keep 詧 when transcribing an old passage or a name such as 蕭詧. Changing it to 察 changes the written form of the source.
Bookish and variant-marked; in ordinary modern Chinese, 詧 looks deliberate rather than neutral.
If you mean the regular modern form, choose 察; outside a historical source, 詧 may look like a typo.
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2How do you read 詧?
In Mandarin, 詧 is read chá when it stands for 察: roughly “chah,” with a rising tone. Classical dictionaries give a separate reading for its “correct speech” sense, while Japanese readings depend on the Japanese text.
Why does 詧 show as a box?
詧 is drawn by a Han font. Different fonts can give its strokes different designs, and a missing-glyph box may appear when the available fonts cannot draw it.
How to type 詧
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