What 𡃍 means
劍 supplies the sound, not the word “sword.”
Chữ Nôm is a historical Vietnamese writing system that adapted Chinese character forms to write Vietnamese words. In 𡃍, 口 (“mouth”) is the meaning clue and 劍 (“sword”) lends an approximate sound: Vietnamese kiếm shifts to gớm. A Nôm character dictionary cites 𡃍 for gớm in Truyện Kiều and other literary works.
A 1343 stone inscription includes chữ Nôm renderings of local names in a record of donations for a temple. It is an early witness for the wider writing system, not a date for 𡃍 itself.
Who writes 𡃍
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsIt describes something disgusting or frightening.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𡃍 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 𡃍
- Search it as
- gớm · ghem · nôm · nom · chu-nom · han-nom
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𡃍\210CDCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.