What 韤 means
It means “sock” or “stocking,” chiefly as a historical variant.
An old Chinese character dictionary, the Shuowen Jiezi, defines it as 足衣, meaning “garment for the foot.” Classical works including the Zuo zhuan and the Records of the Grand Historian also use it for clothing someone actually wore; one passage places the word in a court-etiquette scene.
The meaning stays stable across these spellings: 韤, 韈, and 襪 name the same kind of garment. Modern standard Chinese uses 襪 in traditional writing and 袜 in simplified writing.
Archaic and dictionary-like: a historical spelling, not the usual modern way to write “sock.”
In ordinary modern writing, readers may take it for a typo where 襪 or 袜 is expected.
Who writes 韤
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 韤 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.
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How to type or find 韤
- Search it as
- sock · stocking · 襪 · 袜 · 韈
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
韤\97E4Codes and encoding1 code points
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