What 𣞢 means
It can spell sugarcane in historical regional writing.
A Song-era rhyme dictionary lists the form; Ma Huan’s Ming travel account includes 甘𣞢 in a food list. A 1696 Batavia decree notice uses 𣞢 for zhè (“sugarcane”), in a southern and diaspora Chinese writing context. An English dictionary from 1874 also records sugarcane, while a 1912 dictionary glosses the form as a thorny tree.
Rare, historical, and region-marked in its written use.
In food or sugar-making contexts, read it as sugarcane.
Who writes 𣞢
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𣞢 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 𣞢
- Search it as
- sugarcane · hanzi · cudrania · 蔗 · zhe
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𣞢\237A2Codes and encoding1 code points
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