What 𪸡 means
It is linked to 炪, glossed as “firelight.”
The Unicode Version 16.0 chart links 𪸡 to 炪 and records source entries from Taiwan and South Korea. The Shuowen Jiezi (compiled around 100 CE) analyzes 炪 as 火 (“fire”) plus 出, a sound clue.
Why does 炪 stand for 拙?
It is a sound-based spelling for 拙 (“clumsy”).
The Shuowen Jiezi cites “予亦炪謀” from the Shangshu. Here 炪 writes 拙 by sound. Taiwan’s Ministry of Education’s 2024 Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants also lists 炪 as a variant of 拙.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𪸡 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 𪸡
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2AE21, then Alt+X to get 𪸡.
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-2ae21”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2ae21, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𪸡CSS
\2AE21Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𪸡
HTML hex
𪸡
CSS content
content: "\2AE21";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AA%B8%A1
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.