What 𣺾 means
It records a Vietnamese word for tree sap or resin.
The same graph is also listed for nhừa, so the surrounding phrase helps settle the reading. Huỳnh Tịnh Paulus Của’s Đại Nam Quấc âm tự vị (1895–1896) defines it through tree sap, pine resin, sticky material and residues from a smoking pipe or opium; it also records figurative uses for rambling speech and sluggishness.
Why does Vietnamese use this kind of character?
Chữ Nôm adapted Chinese characters to write Vietnamese.
Vietnamese scholars developed this system after independence in 939, using Chinese characters and their parts to write Vietnamese. It let the local spoken language appear in books alongside Classical Chinese, which continued in education, religion and government.
Who writes 𣺾
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𣺾 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 𣺾
- Search it as
- nhựa · nhừa · chữ nôm · chu nom · nôm character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𣺾\23EBECodes and encoding1 code points
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