What 𢺳 means
It names a grip, a tug, or holding on. Its Cantonese reading is maan1, written in Jyutping, a Latin-letter system for Cantonese sounds; the final number marks tone. Treat it as a verb and read its phrase for the exact action.
What if someone sends only 𢺳?
Ask for the Cantonese phrase; alone, it has no single safe reading. A surviving citation places 𢺳 in an Eastern Han essay by Zhao Yi, who criticizes people for treating the looping strokes of cursive handwriting as essential. The line does not define this character, so it does not establish whether it has the same Cantonese sense.
Colloquial Cantonese word; outside a Cantonese sentence, the glyph alone does not identify which action is meant.
Don't treat 𢺳 as a reaction icon; context supplies its Cantonese meaning.
Who writes 𢺳
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsHold or cling onto something.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𢺳 look like a box?
A missing font glyph. If the active font cannot draw 𢺳, it may show as a box. Windows 10 and later include a font that can display it.
How to type or find 𢺳
- Search it as
- maan1 · cantonese · cangjie
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𢺳\22EB3Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.
