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趩

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Chinese character 趩

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趩 is an old Chinese character whose glosses range from a walking sound to the appearance of not moving. Inscriptions use 趩趩 inside ceremonial and hunting phrases. A 2021 report records it in a Lukang noodle-shop name linked to a ladle bobbing in boiling water.

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What 趩 means

It describes the sound or manner of walking.

Older Chinese dictionaries also gloss 趩 as looking as if one does not move. In the traditional analysis, 走 supplies the movement element, while 異 is the sound element.

How old is 趩 in writing?

An early bronze inscription already uses the character twice.

The ritual bronze vessel 王子午鼎 carries 趩趩 in ceremonial wording; the vessel dates to 558–552 BCE. Another example comes from the Stone Drum Inscriptions (石鼓文), texts carved on drum-shaped stones: a hunting line, 其来趩趩, describes an approach with a marked gait.

Together, these examples show 趩趩 used inside descriptive phrases in old Chinese writing.

Why is 趩 in 趩仔麵?

It is a local character choice in a Lukang noodle-shop name.

A 2021 report from Lukang, a town in Taiwan, records a calligrapher's choice of 趩 for a noodle-shop name. The owner links the character's movement sense and its match for the local noodle name to a ladle bobbing in boiling water.

That explanation belongs to this local food name; it does not make 趩 an everyday message reaction.

Classical and literary in tone.

A bare send does not tell you that the sender means “walking.”

Who writes 趩

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What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings

A phrase for measured, orderly movement in a respectful ceremonial setting.

Combination ideas

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Repeated in inscriptional phrases about movement; ritual and hunting examples give it different settings.
2021 report: a Lukang noodle-shop name linked by its owner to a ladle's bobbing motion.

Questions people ask

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Does a single 趩 tell me what a message means?

No. Its old dictionary senses describe walking or a still appearance, but a bare send does not show why it was chosen. Ask for the surrounding sentence or source.

How to type or find 趩

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Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 8DA9, then AltX to get 趩.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-8da9”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 8da9, then Enter or Space.
HTML
趩
CSS
\8DA9
How can I type 趩?
If your Chinese input method supports Mandarin Pinyin, type chi and check the candidates; rare-character coverage depends on its dictionary.
Unicode hex input
If your editor supports Unicode hex entry, enter 8DA9 and confirm with that editor's commit key.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
趩
HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\8DA9";
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URL encoded
%E8%B6%A9
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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.

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