What 趮 means
趮 means hurried or restless movement.
A silk manuscript of the Laozi found in a Mawangdui tomb uses 趮 where later editions have 躁; the tomb is dated to 168 BCE. The Laozi text is older than this surviving copy.
Shuowen, an early Chinese character dictionary, glosses 趮 as 疾 (“swift” or “hasty”) and analyzes it as 走, the movement element, plus 喿, the sound-bearing element. The classical Guanzi uses 趮者不靜 for restless conduct; the Zhouli, an early book on ritual and government, uses 羽殺則趮 for an arrow that swerves when its rear feathers are shortened.
Should I use 趮 in ordinary writing?
Use 躁 for the restless sense in ordinary modern Chinese.
Later standard editions of the Laozi use 躁 at the passage where the Mawangdui silk manuscript has 趮, and dictionaries record 躁 as the later common form. 趮 fits a historical quotation, a comparison of texts, or deliberate archaic wording.
Without that historical context, 趮 can look like a mistaken character. If you mean restless or hasty in ordinary Chinese, write 躁.
Classical or specialist; ordinary modern writing generally uses 躁 for agitation.
In an ordinary message, 趮 can look like a mistaken character for 躁.
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3 readingsIn the Guanzi, restless conduct is described as not still.
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Questions people ask
1Can different fonts make 趮 look different?
Yes. Fonts for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text can draw the same encoded Han character with different stroke shapes; the character remains 趮.
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