What 𭼝 means
No single gloss fits without context. In historical Chinese dictionaries, related form 㾨 has Mandarin readings qǐ for mourning or an abscess, yī (also yǐ) for bodily weakness or a skin sore, and ǎi as a variant of 矮, “short.”
What is its earlier history?
The earliest cited dictionary entry for 㾨 dates to 997. Taiwan’s Ministry of Education lists 㾨 in Longkan Shoujing, a Chinese character dictionary compiled by a Buddhist monk. Separately, the University of Tokyo’s digital edition of the Taishō Buddhist canon, a collection of Buddhist scriptures, lists 𭼝 among the forms used to represent its source texts.
Who writes 𭼝
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𭼝 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 𭼝
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- 㾨 · taisho
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𭼝\2DF1DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.