What 髉 means
It means bone, the end of a bone, or hard white bone.
Chinese dictionaries record two readings: one for “bone” and “bone end,” the other for bone described as “hard and white.”
As of 2026-09-12, the Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary, has no entry for 髉; the Yupian, compiled c. 543, and the later Guangyun and Jiyun traditions preserve its bone-related senses. The Yupian was revised later, so c. 543 dates the dictionary tradition, not an untouched surviving manuscript.
How do I type 髉?
Use a Mandarin Pinyin, Wubi, or Cangjie input method.
In a Mandarin Pinyin IME, try bó or jué; this uncommon character may be missing from its candidates. Wubi uses MEPY and Cangjie BBOBG; both are shape-based Chinese input methods that work without entering a pronunciation.
What does 髉 mean in a message?
A lone 髉 needs context before you read it as a reaction. Read it as a character reference or quoted specialist text; any joke has to come from that conversation.
Dictionary-specialist rather than conversational; outside bone-related writing, it reads as a deliberate character reference.
Don't infer a reaction from 髉 alone.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsQuestions people ask
1Why does 髉 show as a box?
Your current font may lack a glyph for 髉. Switch to a CJK font that includes this character.
How to type 髉
髉\9AC9Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.