What 鱭 means
Use a Chinese input method: Pinyin or Cangjie.
On a Pinyin keyboard, enter ji4, the Latin-letter spelling of the Mandarin syllable, then select 鱭. The shape-based Cangjie method uses NFYX (弓火卜難).
IBus Cangjie filters rare characters by default; change its rare-character setting if 鱭 is missing.
What does 鱭 mean?
It names an anchovy-family fish.
An early Chinese character dictionary, 《說文解字》, describes 鮆 as a knife fish from Jiujiang, China. Chinese dictionaries record 鱭 as a variant of 鮆; in simplified Chinese, the fish name is 鲚. Around 544, 《齊民要術》, an agricultural manual, uses 鱭魚 in a fish-sauce recipe.
Japanese references give 鱭 the fish-name reading えつ, distinct from the Mandarin reading used for Pinyin input.
A specialist fish name; as of 2026, it has no established chat-reaction meaning.
Who writes 鱭
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1Why does 鱭 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 鱭
- Also called
- 刀魚 · 刀鱼 · 鳳尾魚
- Search it as
- 鮆 · 鲚 · Pinyin ji4 · Cangjie NFYX · anchovy
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
鱭\9C6DCodes and encoding1 code points
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