What 𣴽 means
A 2024 scholarly edition reads it Chángtàn. In Mandarin, 長 can be pronounced cháng (“long”) or zhǎng (“grow” or “chief”). The editor chooses cháng because place-name references favor that reading.
The Mù Tiānzǐ Zhuàn, a classical account of King Mu’s travels, preserves that place name. Its text was recovered among bamboo slips from a tomb by 281 CE; that dates the text’s rediscovery, not the origin of 𣴽.
Who writes 𣴽
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CJK Unified Ideograph-6C99
A 2024 edition’s note reports commentator Hong Yixuan’s suspicion that 𣴽 may be a copying error for 沙 (“sand”) in a later line about Mount Changsha; this remains an editorial hypothesis.
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A 2024 scholarly edition reports that the Hanyu Da Zidian, a Chinese character dictionary, follows a proposal attributed to Tan Cui linking 𣴽 with 炭 (“charcoal”); this is a theory, not an established derivation.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𣴽 appear as a box?
The current font or text viewer lacks a glyph for 𣴽. Unicode encoding does not guarantee every font has a drawing for every character; use a font with coverage for this Han character.
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How to type or find 𣴽
- Search it as
- 長𣴽 · tàn · cangjie
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𣴽CSS
\23D3DCangjie
Cangjie input: this character’s listed shape-based key sequence is E-U-F.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𣴽
HTML hex
𣴽
CSS content
content: "\23D3D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%A3%B4%BD
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.