What 谹 means
It means “deep” or “profound,” especially when applied to ideas.
The Eastern Han dictionary Shuowen Jiezi, completed in 121 CE, records 𧮯, an older form associated with 谹, and glosses it as “a sound in a valley.” 谷 supplies the valley image; 厷 is the sound component.
In the Han-era history book Han Shu, 谹 appears in 崇論谹議; its commentary glosses it as “deep,” carrying the valley image into intellectual depth. A parallel passage in the Shiji, another Chinese history, has 閎 instead; later dictionaries connect 閎 and 谹 in this phrase.
Should I use 谹 in a message?
Use it in literary Chinese, and read a message in context. Its documented setting is formal classical wording. A lone 谹 gives little clue about the sender’s tone, so the surrounding sentence helps show what is being described as profound.
Literary Chinese with a classical feel; using it casually can sound like a deliberate formal flourish.
A lone 谹 cannot tell you whose words are called profound; the sentence around it does.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
1Questions people ask
2Is 谹 an emoji?
No. 谹 is a font-drawn Chinese text character, not an emoji with its own artwork.
Why does 谹 look different in different fonts?
Different CJK fonts can change stroke proportions and spacing. Font rendering changes the drawing, not the character’s identity.
How to type 谹
谹\8C39Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.