What 𪤞 means
It marks a rare spelling of a Buddhist vessel name.
A Buddhist glossary calls 軍𪤞 a two-opening flask, with one mouth for filling and another for pouring. The usual form is 軍持, a sound-based rendering of Sanskrit kuṇḍikā, “water pot.”
The monk Faxian says he carried one in his early fifth-century travel account Foguo Ji. Chinese images show Guanyin, a Buddhist figure of compassion, holding it. A Southern Song poem mentions flowers in a household vase; a 15th-century crescent-shaped example at Taiwan’s National Palace Museum served Muslim washing before prayer.
Who writes 𪤞
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1Why does 𪤞 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C 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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- 軍𪤞 · 軍持 · kuṇḍikā · kundika
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𪤞\2A91ECodes and encoding1 code points
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