What 诜 means
Alone, 诜 means “ask”; doubled, it means “many.”
The traditional form is 詵, explained in the Shuowen as 致言, putting words forward, with 先 giving the sound. No inventor is named; as of 2026-09-08, treat it as an inherited literary character, not a modern invention.
In practice watch the doubling: 诜诜 means “numerous,” and in later classical use a harmoniously gathered group. Related written variants include 駪駪, 莘莘, and 侁侁.
Literary and context-dependent; read a lone 诜 as classical wording and 诜诜 as “many” or “gathered together.”
Without context, “ask” and “many” are easy to confuse.
Who writes 诜
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsA classical blessing for many descendants.
Questions people ask
1Why does 诜 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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How to type or find 诜
- Also called
- 詵
- Search it as
- 诜 · 诜诜 · 莘莘 · shen · shēn · 诜字 · 诜读音
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
诜\8BDCCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.