What 𫒆 means
It names a hand drill with a T-shaped handle. Turn the crossbar, and its spiral point bores a hole.
The Japanese character dictionary Shinsen Jikyō, compiled around 900, records the reading as 毛知支利—characters used for their sounds—in a manuscript copy dated 1124.
Who writes 𫒆
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𫒆 show as a box?
The app may lack a font with this glyph. That can leave a box or blank space on screen even though the text still contains 𫒆.
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How to type or find 𫒆
- Search it as
- drill
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𫒆CSS
\2B486GNOME/GTK
As of 2026, in a GNOME/GTK text field, press CtrlShiftU, type 2B486, then Enter.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𫒆
HTML hex
𫒆
CSS content
content: "\2B486";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AB%92%86
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.