What 𫏰 means
It means winding; figuratively, knotted distress.
Unicode links 𫏰 to Taiwan catalog entry TE-3855, listed as 嵼. In Mandarin pinyin, 嵼 is chǎn; the Ji Yun, a Chinese rhyme dictionary, records its winding-mountain sense. Song-era poet Lu You uses it for curling clouds. The figurative sense appears through 蹇產 in Chu Ci, a classical Chinese poetry collection, for thoughts knotted by distress. A 2006 Taiwan name-character submission records the linked form in personal names with reading duan.
How does 𫏰 work in UTF-16?
UTF-16 stores it as one linked pair.
Unicode Standard 18.0 explains that UTF-16 stores this supplementary character as a pair of code units. Software that splits text at each unit can break 𫏰 apart.
Who writes 𫏰
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𫏰 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 𫏰
- Search it as
- 𫏰 · 嵼 · te-3855
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𫏰\2B3F0Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

