What 鳧 means
It means a wild duck in Classical Chinese.
The earliest identified forms catalogued under 鳧 reach back to Shang oracle-bone material and Western Zhou bronze inscriptions, then continue through seal and clerical forms. Its job was lexical: writing a water-bird name. The Classic of Poetry hunts 鳧 beside geese, while 鳧鷖 pairs it with another water bird.
As of 2026-09-13, the sources reviewed credit no single inventor or founding ritual. Later lexicographers contrast wild 鳧 with domestic 鶩 and 鴨, and record a verb sense “to swim,” written as an alternative to 浮. In Japanese the same character can be kamo, “duck,” or keri, “grey-headed lapwing.”
How do I type 鳧?
Use fu in a Chinese IME, then select 鳧.
Type fu in Traditional Chinese mode and pick 鳧; Simplified mode may offer 凫 first. In Japanese try kamo or keri if your dictionary carries the character. If the candidate list misses it, copy it from the palette above.
Literary and lexicographic, not conversational; 鳧 suggests quotation, specialist writing, or deliberate choice.
Do not send it as a duck reaction; alone it reads as an unknown character.
Who writes 鳧
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA character question, not a reaction; ask for the language or source before guessing tone.
Don't confuse it with
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2鳧 Japanese reading?
It can be. Japanese uses kamo for “duck” and keri for “grey-headed lapwing”; the surrounding Japanese decides the reading.
鳧 emoji?
No. 鳧 is a CJK character with no emoji presentation; your font draws it and the language gives the reading.
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How to type or find 鳧
- Also called
- 鳬 · 凫 · 𩾖
- Search it as
- fu · 野鸭 · 水鸭 · keri · mallard · teal · lapwing · swim
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
鳧\9CE7fu and choose 鳧 in Traditional mode; Simplified mode may offer 凫.kamo for duck or keri for lapwing; dictionary coverage varies.Codes and encoding1 code points
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