What 餰 means
A literary Chinese character for porridge or gruel, especially thick grain porridge.
The Xunzi, a classical Chinese text on ritual and conduct, uses 餰 in the food phrase 餰鬻. The Han-era Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary, groups this food family under 饘; dictionaries also record 餰 as a variant of 饘.
Some glosses specify thick gruel, while others use the broader sense “porridge.” The character’s register is literary and dictionary-like.
Literary and dictionary-like; use it when this food word or its historical spelling matters.
Questions people ask
1Why does 餰 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.
How to type 餰
餰\9930Codes and encoding1 code points
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