What 𪬫 means
It can point to “that” or “those,” or link a thought.
Older Vietnamese literary texts, including Truyền kỳ, Bách vịnh, and Thi kinh B, use 𪬫 for ấy after a noun, as in “tài năng 𪬫” (“that talent”). Verse also records a linking or transitional use, including “𪬫𪬫.”
What is 𪬫 in Vietnamese chữ Nôm?
It belongs to chữ Nôm, a Han-derived Vietnamese writing system.
Vietnamese scholars adapted Chinese characters and their parts to write Vietnamese, alongside Classical Chinese used in scholarship and public life. Scholars place an early stage, Proto-Nôm, in the 8th–9th centuries; the script changed across later periods.
Who writes 𪬫
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𪬫 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 or find 𪬫
- Search it as
- ấy · ay · chu nom ấy · chữ nôm ấy · vietnamese ấy · han nom ấy
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𪬫\2AB2BCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

