What 鯻 means
It names a fish. 鯻魚 is the Chinese name for a small, striped fish found off Guangdong's coast. In a message, start with this literal name; surrounding words can supply any extra meaning.
The earliest reference listed is in Jiyun (《集韻》), a Chinese dictionary organized by rhyme and completed in 1039. A 2024 entry from Taiwan's Ministry of Education says Shuowen Jiezi (《說文解字》), an earlier Chinese character dictionary, does not record 鯻. That entry links 鯻 with 䱫 and lists 䱨 as a variant.
Specific and literal: a Chinese name for a fish.
Who writes 鯻
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Questions people ask
1Why does 鯻 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 鯻
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- 鯻 · 鯻魚 · là · 䱫 · 䱨 · Chinese fish name
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
鯻\9BFBCodes and encoding1 code points
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