What 齾 means
Use Mandarin Pinyin or Cangjie in a Chinese input method.
For this missing-tooth character, enter yà in a Mandarin Pinyin IME or YKYMU with Cangjie. If neither lists 齾, use your system's Unicode input or character map.
If 齾 appears as a blank box, the font lacks the character. The input remains 齾; a visually similar character is not a substitute.
What does 齾 mean?
It means a missing tooth, then a notch or chipped edge.
The Eastern Han Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary, gives the earliest attested dictionary explanation: a missing tooth. It analyzes 齒 as the meaning-bearing part and 獻 as the sound-bearing part.
Later dictionaries also use 齾 for a gap in an object, including damage left when an animal gnaws it. In Song poetry, the doubled form 齾齾 describes jagged or uneven outlines.
Literary and uncommon in ordinary conversation; it can sound learned, archaic, or deliberately precise.
For an everyday chip, plain wording is safer; 齾 can look like a typo or a character quiz.
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Who writes 齾
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA literary word or lookup; ask the sender what they mean.
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1Questions people ask
1Why does 齾 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 齾
- Search it as
- yà · ya4 · 齾齾 · 𫜰 · missing tooth 齾 · chipped edge 齾
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
齾\9F7Eyà in a Mandarin Chinese input method.YKYMU.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.