What 饉 means
It names famine, food shortage, or crop failure.
The left side is the food element; the other part gives the sound. Its earliest recorded evidence is an inscription cast on a bronze object during the mid-Western Zhou period in ancient China. An early dictionary explanation limits the sense to vegetables failing to ripen. Later definitions widen it to harvest failure and famine; some classical accounts distinguish grain failure (饑) from vegetable failure (饉).
What does 饉 mean in a message?
Read it as famine or crop failure when the sentence supports that. By itself, 饉 is literary or historical, so the surrounding sentence sets its exact scope. The Japanese compounds 飢饉 and 饑饉 make the famine reading explicit.
Why does 饉 look different in some fonts?
The installed CJK font can change its visible shape. The same text character may have different strokes or proportions across devices because each device uses its installed CJK font. That difference alone does not change which character the text contains.
Literary and historical; it names food shortage, crop failure, or famine.
Alone, 饉 can read like an unexplained quotation; add enough context for readers to place it.
Who writes 饉
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2Questions people ask
1Why does 饉 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 饉
- Search it as
- 饉 · 馑 · 飢饉 · 饑饉 · 凶饉 · 饑 · 飢 · jǐn
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
饉\9949Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.