What 𫯳 means
Read it as the Vietnamese word chồng, “husband.”
Chữ Nôm is a historical Vietnamese script built from Chinese characters and their components. In 𫯳, 重 (“heavy; repeated”) is on the left and 夫 (“man; husband”) is on the right; together they write a Vietnamese word. Nôm references cite it in Truyện Kiều, Nguyễn Du’s verse narrative. In the Latin-based Quốc Ngữ script, the word is written chồng.
Historical and literary; it belongs to the chữ Nôm writing tradition.
In Latin-script Vietnamese, write chồng; 𫯳 marks a switch into Nôm.
Who writes 𫯳
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Questions people ask
1Can 𫯳 also be read chờn?
Yes. One Vietnamese Hán-Nôm dictionary (for Chinese and Nôm characters) also lists chờn for this graph; its cited literary lines use chồng. Nearby words help settle the reading.
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How to type or find 𫯳
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- chồng · chờn · husband · nôm · chữ nôm
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𫯳\2BBF3Codes and encoding1 code points
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