What 糒 means
It represents 糒, a character for dried cooked rice.
The early Chinese dictionary Shuowen Jiezi (around 100 CE) glosses an older related form, 𥼓, as “dry.”
Classical Chinese texts use 糒 for dried rice or provisions. Japan’s chronicle Nihon Shoki (compiled in 720 CE) tells of an envoy eating 糒 while waiting; Japanese sources describe it as cooked rice dried for carrying, eaten dry or softened in water.
Why does it have a separate code?
To preserve a Taiwanese source-character mapping.
Unicode’s chart maps 糒 to 糒 and lists source T7-312D in CNS 11643-1992, Taiwan’s multi-plane Han character set. The separate code preserves round-trip exchange with that source: text can be converted out and back without losing its source identity.
An encoding distinction around an old food word.
Text normalization can change it to 糒. The sequence 糒︀ (糒 plus a variation selector) preserves the glyph distinction.
Who writes 糒
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 糒 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 糒
- Search it as
- 糒 · dried rice · CNS 11643
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
糒\2F966Codes and encoding1 code points
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