What 郩 means
It names an old place or the 崤 mountain.
A bronze vessel dated to the Spring-and-Autumn–Warring-States transition bears an inscription—text cast into its surface—with an early form read as 郩 in a 2024 Palace Museum study.
In Mandarin, xiáo sounds roughly like “shyaow” with rising pitch; dictionaries use it for the place or mountain. The other reading, ǎo, sounds roughly like “ow,” starting low and rising, and names an old settlement.
What does 郩 mean when someone sends it?
As of 2026, it has no established chat reaction meaning.
If it arrives by itself, ask whether it names a place or appears in a historical quotation; those are its recorded uses.
Historical and lexicographic; suited to a discussion of old place names.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 郩 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.
How to type 郩
郩\90E9Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.