What 𬮇 means
A Huizhou word for “dog,” childlike in Jixi in 2026.
Huizhou is a historic region in southern Anhui, China, where local Chinese speech varies from town to town. The written form places the character for dog inside the character for gate.
What does it mean when someone sends 𬮇?
In Jixi, it means “dog”; that use is documented in 2022.
If the message comes from Jixi and the surrounding wording is local, read 𬮇 as the dialect word for “dog.” A 2026 dictionary entry marks that use as childlike. A 2022 local account records the character in personal names, where it is simply a name element.
Did Hu Shi invent 𬮇?
No: local use is recorded by 1786.
A stone bridge in Shexian County carries 𬮇 in a donor’s name, more than a century before Hu Shi. A family story links Hu Shi to its gate-and-dog shape: he explained it to his nephew. A 2007 article credits him with creating 𬮇/𬮝 for Huizhou dialects, and a 2022 Unicode working paper repeats that claim. The inscription points to earlier local use, so Hu Shi is better described as a later user than the inventor.
A 2026 dictionary entry tags the Jixi “dog” use as childlike; a 2022 local account records personal-name use.
Who writes 𬮇
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsThe childlike dog word; a 2022 local account gives the sound lù.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𬮇 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 𬮇
- Search it as
- huizhou dog · jixi dog · lū · huizhou dialect character · 𬮝
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𬮇\2CB87Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.