CJK ideograph 2136E

𡍮 is an old form of 垂.

Chinese character dictionaries treat 𡍮 as a form of 垂, whose familiar senses include hanging, drooping, and letting something down. For ordinary modern Chinese writing, use 垂; 𡍮 preserves the older or variant written form.

Its history reaches back to bronze inscriptions associated with the Chinese Spring and Autumn period, followed by small-seal script, an early standardized style of Chinese writing. One pictographic analysis sees flowers hanging from a plant; Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary, glosses the word as a distant edge or border. These are historical explanations of the character's development, not two modern meanings to choose between.

Why is 𡍮 linked to both hanging and borders?

The two readings belong to different stages of explanation.

Early dictionaries gloss 垂 as a distant edge or frontier; later commentary extends that edge sense to the boundary of a place. Texts in Classical Chinese, an older literary form of the language, also use 垂 for hanging down, letting something fall, dripping, passing a name or achievement onward, and nearing an endpoint.

Chinese dictionary tradition uses 陲 for the border or frontier sense that older explanations also associate with 垂. This is a historical link, not a reason to substitute 𡍮 for either character in modern writing.

Why does 𡍮 appear as a box?

Usually, the font lacks this rare glyph.

A box or placeholder is a font fallback: the text system may recognize that the character is assigned but have no glyph available to draw. The box does not change what 𡍮 is.

The character lies beyond the range a single 16-bit unit can represent, so display needs Unicode support and a font containing its glyph. UTF-16 represents it as two linked 16-bit units; software that splits the pair can corrupt the text. Keep the pair together in an editor that handles supplementary characters.