Sawndip Character for Mbauq

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What does 𭻚 mean in Zhuang?

It writes mbauq, a Zhuang word for “young man.”

Sawndip is a traditional character-based way to write the Zhuang languages. It adapts Han-character shapes and parts, and also uses locally made graphs, to record Zhuang speech. People used it in songs, stories, ritual texts, letters, contracts and legal records. A 2013 account identifies a rock inscription from 682 as the earliest known example of this wider writing tradition; that dates Sawndip, not this individual graph. Modern standard Zhuang uses a Latin-based alphabet.

In romantic contexts, mbauq can mean a male sweetheart or partner. A 2019 Chinese–Zhuang translation article pairs it with sau (“young woman” or “female partner”) in a married person's story to convey an outside relationship. The affair reading comes from the phrase and story, not from 𭻚 by itself.