What 𫋶 means
It writes Vietnamese xưa. As an adjective, xưa describes something old or ancient; as a noun, it means long ago or the old times. Chữ Nôm adapted Chinese character forms to write Vietnamese words.
Chữ Nôm developed over centuries. One scholarly chronology calls its early 8th–9th-century phase Proto-Nôm; this dates a stage of the script, not this exact glyph.
Unicode's source label V4-5422 points to Hanoi's 2007 Hán Nôm Coded Character Repertoire, a catalogue of characters from the Vietnamese and Chinese writing traditions. The year dates the catalogue, not the character's first use.
A traditional chữ Nôm form; modern Vietnamese usually writes xưa in Quốc ngữ, the Latin-based script.
For ordinary Vietnamese prose, write xưa in Quốc ngữ; this glyph belongs to chữ Nôm.
Who writes 𫋶
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𫋶 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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How to type or find 𫋶
- Also called
- xưa
- Search it as
- xua · chữ nôm · nôm xưa · Vietnamese chữ Nôm
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𫋶\2B2F6Codes and encoding1 code points
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