Fawn character

𪋃 is a recorded written variant of 麛, the classical Chinese word for a fawn. In The Book of Rites, a guide to ritual conduct, 麛 appears in a spring-hunting rule against taking fawns and eggs to avoid harming their kind; classical dictionaries also extend the word to other young animals. A supplement to the Kangxi Dictionary cites the earlier Longkan dictionary’s gloss for 𪋃: “deer-like.”