What 餜 means
It names cakes and other foods made from rice or flour.
Taiwan’s Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants cites Yupian, an old Chinese character dictionary, glossing 餜 as 「餅子」 (“cake” or “flatbread”), and Jiyun, another dictionary, glossing it as 「餅」 (“cake”).
In a northern-dialect use of 餜子, it can mean youtiao, a long fried dough stick, or more broadly pastries and snacks. The surrounding word or regional usage settles the reading.
What does it mean when someone sends 餜?
A lone 餜 is a food term or a character query.
Read it as a food word, a request to identify the character, or a question about its traditional form. With no surrounding word, the intended dish is unclear.
In 餜子, regional usage can point to youtiao or to pastries and snacks.
How do I type 餜?
Use Mandarin Pinyin or a shape-based input method.
With a Mandarin Pinyin input method, type guo or guo3 and select 餜 if it appears.
The Cangjie code for 餜 is OIWD; Wubi references list wyvs or wvjs.
In a message, 餜 reads as a food word or lookup fragment; its tone depends on the surrounding text.
A lone 餜 does not tell you which dish the sender means.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsDon't confuse it with
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1Why does 餜 show as a box?
Usually, the font lacks this character. The box is a missing-glyph marker, not a replacement for 餜; a font that includes the character can display it.
How to type 餜
餜\991CCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.