Chữ Nôm character for gửi

It writes the Vietnamese verb gửi — “to send” or “to entrust.”

Chữ Nôm is Vietnam's old character script: scribes wrote Vietnamese words with Chinese characters borrowed for their sound or sense, and coined new ones by recombining Chinese parts. 𫏍 is a coined one — the left element 足, “foot,” marks the meaning side, and 改 on the right supplies the sound: 改 itself was a Nôm spelling of gửi.

In South-Central and Southern Vietnam the same verb is also spelled gởi. The word and the meaning stay the same; only the regional spelling differs.

Where does it fit in Vietnamese writing?

It belongs to Chữ Nôm, Vietnam's historical character script.

Researchers trace Proto-Nôm to the 8th–9th centuries and a mature system to the 11th–14th. Classical Chinese dominated official writing for centuries, while Nôm became the great medium of Vietnamese-language literature — most famously Nguyễn Du's verse epic The Tale of Kiều, written in the early 1800s, still called the national poem, and now circulating mainly in Quốc ngữ transliteration.

That era has ended. Modern Vietnamese is written in Quốc ngữ, a Latin-based alphabet worked out in the 1600s by Catholic missionaries and their Vietnamese collaborators; by the mid-1900s it had displaced Nôm almost everywhere. The script survives in collections and specialist study, with occasional calligraphic use — and if you meet 𫏍 anywhere, it will most likely be in a Nôm text or a dictionary.

Why might 𫏍 show up as an empty box?

Usually a missing font — the text itself isn't broken.

𫏍 sits in Extension C, a Unicode block of rare characters. Everyday fonts cover the common range, but not all reach this far — a phone or browser may draw a hollow box where 𫏍 should be. No standard keyboard types it either: you enter it by its Unicode number, 2B3CD, or paste it from a source that can display it.