What 𪌐 means
The meaning is stable; the dictionaries trace the spellings differently.
Longkan Shoujian was made to explain characters in Buddhist texts. Yùpiān (玉篇), a Chinese character dictionary first compiled in 543, records 䴸 as a customary form of 麩. The later Kangxi Dictionary calls 𪌐 a mistaken form of 䴸, while Taiwan’s Ministry of Education treats 𪌐 itself as a variant of 麩. These records keep the bran meaning but connect the written forms in different ways.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𪌐 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.
How to type 𪌐
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2A310, then Alt+X to get 𪌐.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-2a310”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2a310, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𪌐CSS
\2A310Microsoft Word for Windows
Type 2A310 where you want the character, then press Alt+X. If it follows other text, select only the code before pressing the shortcut.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𪌐
HTML hex
𪌐
CSS content
content: "\2A310";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AA%8C%90
1
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.