What 𫖪 means
It means “bald”; another gloss names a fish’s cheekbone.
The older form 𩑔 appears in Shuowen Jiezi, a Chinese character dictionary completed around 100 CE. Its entry links 頁 (“head”) to meaning and 气 to sound.
Dictionaries also use 𩑔 for a bone beside a fish’s cheek. A Zhouli commentary uses that sense, while the Lotus Sutra, a Buddhist scripture, describes a dog or jackal as 𩑔瘦 (“bald and thin”).
Is 𫖪 another form of 𩑔?
Yes: 𫖪 is the simplified variant of 𩑔.
The exact form appears in the 1999 Hànyǔ Fāngyán Dà Cídiǎn, a Chinese dialect dictionary.
A 2015 Unicode report flagged 𫖪’s chart glyph for a wrong left-hand component; a 2016 standards review accepted the correction.
Who writes 𫖪
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𫖪 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 𫖪
- Search it as
- kū · ku · bald · hairless · cheekbone
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𫖪\2B5AACodes and encoding1 code points
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