What 雍 means
Read the neighbours: 雍 means harmony, poise, or a name.
A 2022 study argues that 雝 was used mainly pre-Han and that clerical change helped produce the mixed usage leading to modern 雍. Classical texts also use it as a loan for “to block” and “to possess,” so one gloss is unsafe.
In 辟雍, Western Zhou bronze inscriptions connect the character with a royal water-ringed park used for ritual, hunting, and feasting; a Han-era reinterpretation recast 辟雍 as an imperial school.
Can 雍 stand alone as a reply?
Usually no: treat a lone 雍 as context missing, not a reaction.
If it sits in a name, place, title, or established compound such as 雍正 for the yongzheng reign name, keep that local reading. If someone sends only 雍, ask which word or name they meant. It is a typed character, not a vendor emoji with a shared reaction meaning.
Formal, historical, or name-bound; it does not read like casual emoji shorthand.
A lone 雍 is not a reliable yes, thanks, or agreement.
Who writes 雍
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What it means when someone sends it to you
4 readingsDescribes a composed, graceful, poised manner.
Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
3Questions people ask
1What is 辟雍?
A royal ritual park. Western Zhou evidence describes a raised platform surrounded by water; later tradition treated 辟雍 as an imperial school.
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How to type or find 雍
- Search it as
- yong · harmony · graceful · poised · yongzheng · yongrong · yonghe · biyong
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
雍\96CDCodes and encoding1 code points
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