What 𫐏 means
It means “heavy” or “heavily loaded,” especially of a vehicle.
In Mandarin, 輖 is pronounced zhōu. Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary, glosses it as “heavy” (100 CE); Guangyun (1008 CE) says “heavily loaded.” In Yili, an ancient Chinese ritual manual, it appears in a passage about balancing a carriage carrying arrows.
𫐏 is an analogical simplification of 輖: its shorter form follows established simplification patterns. Unicode’s source record for this exact shape points to Ci Hai (1999), a Chinese reference work.
Who writes 𫐏
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𫐏 appear as a box?
A blank box means the selected font lacks this glyph. As of 2026, this can happen in browsers or apps whose active font does not cover it; the character’s identity is unchanged.
How to type or find 𫐏
- Search it as
- zhou · 輖
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𫐏\2B40FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

