What 颻 means
颻 describes drifting or flying with the wind.
Older Chinese dictionaries, including 玉篇 and 廣韻, associate 颻 with rising wind and movement carried by wind. Later literary use pairs it with 飄 in 飄颻 for things borne by wind or a figure moving high through the air; 飄搖 is a recorded spelling of that compound.
Is 颻 the same as 飖?
Yes. 飖 is the simplified counterpart of 颻.
Both have the same reading in Mandarin and share the core wind-borne sense. They differ by traditional and simplified spelling; converting 飄颻 to simplified Chinese gives 飘飖.
Why does 颻 look different?
The encoded character is the same; fonts can draw it differently.
Unicode identifies the character but does not set one universal outline. Fonts for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean can follow different regional conventions. If the selected font lacks its glyph, software may substitute another font from one of those writing systems, changing the drawing but not the character.
Literary and specialized: it names wind-borne movement and fits classical wording better than a casual standalone message.
For an everyday shake or sway, use 搖; 颻 belongs to the literary wind-borne word 飄颻.
Who writes 颻
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 颻 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 颻
- Search it as
- yao · yáo · yao2 · 飖 · 䬙 · 飄颻 · 飄搖 · 飘摇
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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