What 𭸶 means
It begins one recorded Taiwanese Hokkien spelling of morphine.
Taiwanese Hokkien is a Southern Min language used in Taiwan. Here, 𭸶琲 is pronounced mô͘-hui and names the borrowed drug.
The borrowed word has several spellings
An 1870s English–Amoy dictionary (Amoy is a Hokkien variety spoken around Xiamen) records the older English name morphia with the longer pronunciation mô͘-hui-a; church newspapers used mô͘-hui by the 1880s. The 1931–32 Taiwanese–Japanese Dictionary 《臺日大辭典》 records 𭸶琲.
Other recorded forms include 㕰啡 and 毛琲; a 1971 song writes 嗎啡. The spelling shifts, while the borrowed drug name stays the same.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𭸶 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.
How to type 𭸶
𭸶\2DE36Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.