Chinese character 髍

Type mo in Chinese Pinyin input and select 髍.

Pinyin input turns Chinese pronunciation spellings into candidate characters. If 髍 is missing, a stroke- or component-based input method can search by written form; some systems also support hexadecimal Unicode entry.

What does 髍 mean?

髍 names an old paralysis-related illness.

The Eastern Han Chinese character dictionary 說文解字 defines 髍 as 㾫病, a paralysis illness. It treats 骨 as the meaning-bearing component and 麻 as the sound-bearing component. A later Chinese rhyme dictionary—a reference arranged by sound—glosses the illness as 身支半枯, “the limbs partly withered.”

Passages in the Tang medical manual 千金要方 use 髍 for a hand that cannot lift and a shoulder muscle that feels numb or wooden; there, it can describe a local symptom rather than paralysis of a whole side. Dictionaries also list 䯢 and 𤼑 as variant forms. Duan Yucai’s commentary connects 䯢 in the old phrase 幺䯢 to the sense “small” or “diminutive,” extended from an incomplete or partly impaired body; later spellings include traditional 幺麼 and simplified 幺么.

Is 髍 an emoji?

No; 髍 is a Chinese text character, not an emoji.

If it arrives alone, treat it as an unfamiliar written character and ask for the surrounding sentence; do not infer a reaction. As of 2026, no standard chat-reaction meaning is documented for 髍.