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鯂

cjk unified ideograph-9bc2

Variant of 穌

19907/20992

鯂 is a rare written variant of 穌, in a word family associated with recovery and coming back to life. Older glosses trace the family from gathering scattered stalks through rest and recovery to revival. If someone sends 鯂 alone, there is too little context to infer what they mean.

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What 鯂 means

鯂 is recorded as an alternate written form of 穌. It appears in the Longkan Shoujing, a Chinese character dictionary completed in 997.

Older glosses for 穌 connect its sense first with gathering scattered stalks, then with resting or recovering, and later with reviving or returning to life. In Mandarin, pinyin (the system for writing its sounds with Latin letters) gives the reading as sū: roughly “soo” on a high, level tone.

Rare and bookish, it fits a discussion of Chinese characters more naturally than everyday chat.

The fish component is no guide to its meaning; the documented link is to 穌.

Who writes 鯂

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Questions people ask

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Why does 鯂 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 or find 鯂

Search it as
sū · su · 穌 · 甦 · 蘇 · 稣 · revive
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 9BC2, then AltX to get 鯂.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-9bc2”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 9bc2, then Enter or Space.
HTML
鯂
CSS
\9BC2
Chinese pinyin input
On a Chinese pinyin keyboard, which enters Mandarin syllables with Latin letters, type su and check the candidates for 鯂; rare forms may not be offered.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鯂
HTML hex
鯂
CSS content
content: "\9BC2";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%AF%82
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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