What 𪓿 means
It appears in an old name for a toad.
An Eastern Han dictionary, Shuowen Jiezi (100–121 CE), records 𪓰𪓿 as a way to write 詹諸, an old toad name, in the Book of Songs, a Chinese poem collection. It treats 黽 as the frog/toad part and 爾 as a clue to the sound.
What does 戚施 mean here?
Old commentaries disagree: toad or hunched person.
One Han-era note reads 戚施 as a toad, an insult about ugliness; another says a person unable to raise their head. The Han-era text Huainanzi says the moon's toad eats the moon during an eclipse. If 𪓿 shows as a box, its font lacks the glyph; Copy still carries the exact character.
Who writes 𪓿
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𪓿 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 𪓿
- Search it as
- 詹諸 · 詹诸 · 𪓰𪓿 · 蟾蜍 · toad · 戚施
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𪓿\2A4FFCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.