What 𩙿 means
It is a meaning component, not a standalone food word. 食 is the food-and-eating element that files characters into that family — 飯 'meal', 餓 'hungry' and 飲 'drink' all wear it on the left. The shape evolved rather than being invented: the 食 family is documented from oracle-bone and bronze inscriptions onward, and 𩙿 is the compressed left-side form fixed by the Kangxi standard.
Which version you meet is convention, not meaning: Taiwan's standard and Kangxi-style print use 𩙿, Japanese kanji use 飠, and mainland simplified text uses 饣. An empty box where a glyph should be means your font lacks the character — not a different symbol.
Technical and dictionary-facing; rarely typed as a character in its own right.
Don't send it alone to mean food — it reads as a radical, not a word.
Who writes 𩙿
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𩙿 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 𩙿
- Also called
- food radical · eat radical · 食字旁
- Search it as
- 食部 · 飠 · 饣 · 2967F
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𩙿\2967FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.