What 靕 means
靕 means morally upright conduct, untainted by crooked influence.
The Taiwan Ministry of Education's variant-character dictionary notes that 靕 is absent from Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary, and cites a Ming printed edition of 四聲篇海, another character reference work.
A gloss in the Kangxi Dictionary, a later Chinese character dictionary, explains the parts symbolically: 正 is linked with truth and uprightness, 青 with the east, and untainted conduct with the path toward becoming an immortal.
Someone sent me 靕—what does it mean?
Ask what context they intend; the glyph alone is ambiguous.
Mandarin reads it zhēn in pinyin (first tone, high and level; zh is roughly a j sound articulated farther back). Japanese readings are しん and ただしい; the Korean Hanja reading is 진. These readings differ by language, while the moral sense stays near uprightness and purity. A bare message does not tell you whether the sender means a name, quotation, or dictionary gloss.
Rare in everyday writing; it fits dictionary history and Korean name-character references.
A lone 靕 does not tell you which person, source, or gloss the sender has in mind.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsQuestions people ask
1Why does 靕 look different across fonts?
Different Han fonts draw its strokes differently, so the outline can vary by typeface while the underlying character remains the same.
How to type 靕
靕\9755Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.
