What 诮 means
It means blame or pointed mockery.
The Lüshi Chunqiu is a Chinese essay collection; its story uses 誚 when a father rebukes his real son after a ghost impersonates the boy.
A poem from the Song dynasty uses 誚 to mean “almost.”
It carries blame or ridicule, not neutral comment.
It reads as criticism, not friendly teasing.
Who writes 诮
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Mock or deride.
Reproach or blame someone.
A formal rebuke.
Questions people ask
1Why does 诮 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 诮
- Search it as
- qiao · qiao4 · qiào · 讥诮 · 诮责 · 诮让 · 誚 · reprimand
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
诮CSS
\8BEEMandarin Pinyin
In a Mandarin Pinyin input method, type qiao, then select 诮 from the candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
诮
HTML hex
诮
CSS content
content: "\8BEE";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%AF%AE
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.