What 𫓍 means
A bellows used in metalworking. Its Japanese reading is fuki; it is a kokuji, a kanji created in Japan.
Earlier copies of Shinsen Jikyō, a Japanese character dictionary, record fuki for bellows under other written forms. This glyph’s reading is attributed to Kōchō Zōji Kō, a Japanese character study. The familiar word fuigo developed from fukigawa (“blowing leather”), recalling the tool’s leather-bag origins.
Japanese bellows later included piston boxes and foot-treadled designs. In the late 17th century, tatara (Japanese iron-smelting furnaces) used balance-linked treadles: as one side fell, the other rose.
Who writes 𫓍
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𫓍 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 𫓍
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- fuigo · bellows · fukigawa · kokuji
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𫓍\2B4CD𫓍.Codes and encoding1 code points
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