Vietnamese Nôm character for trông ngóng

It expresses the wish to see or meet someone.

A Vietnamese Hán-Nôm dictionary—a reference for Chinese-character and Nôm writing—records this graph for trông ngóng. The phrase can also describe waiting for someone’s return or for news.

It belongs to an older Vietnamese writing tradition

Chữ Nôm developed by adapting Chinese characters and their parts to transcribe Vietnamese speech. It carried Vietnamese words and literature alongside chữ Hán, the Classical Chinese writing used in education and official life.

Different graphs are indexed under the Vietnamese reading trông. For example, 𥉩 is another graph with overlapping dictionary glosses such as trông mong and trông ngóng.