What 𪢦 means
It abbreviates 歌舞, “song and dance.”
Read it kabu in these titles: 哥 stands for 歌 (“song”), while 舞 means “dance.” Together they form the first two characters of 歌舞伎 (kabuki). A kokuji is a kanji made in Japan; this ligature joins parts of other characters.
Why does 𪢦 appear in old kabuki titles?
It compresses two characters into one in Japanese literary titles.
The popular story title 契情お国𪢦妓 (Keisei Okuni Kabuki) was printed in 1730; 酒迎御馳走𪢦妓 (Sakemukae Gochisō Kabuki) is a kabuki title for a production first staged in 1771.
In a 2011 example, Japan’s National Diet Library catalogue spelled it 哥舞 because its standard character encoding could not represent the single ligature; the original book has one character.
Who writes 𪢦
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𪢦 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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𪢦\2A8A6Codes and encoding1 code points
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