What 𬋤 means
It represents a word for scratching or scraping. Taiwan's CNS 11643 character list links this glyph to 爮. Taiwan's Ministry of Education reads 爮 as Mandarin páo (a rising-tone syllable) and glosses it as scratching or scraping.
A Tang-era Buddhist text about monastic rules and stories shows a bull pawing the ground as it faces a lion. A Qing-era dictionary of everyday speech records scraping pumpkin and taro with a fingernail.
Who writes 𬋤
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-722E
Taiwan’s CNS 11643 character list links 𬋤 to 爮, the Mandarin páo form for scratching or scraping.
CJK Unified Ideograph-634A
A Buddhist glossary identifies 捊, written with the hand component, as the standard form of the same word.
CJK Unified Ideograph-638A
A lexicon equates 掊 and 爮 for the same word about scratching or scraping.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𬋤 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 𬋤
- Search it as
- 爮 · 爮地 · 爮刮 · páo · scratch · scrape
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𬋤CSS
\2C2E4Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𬋤
HTML hex
𬋤
CSS content
content: "\2C2E4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AC%8B%A4
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.