Variant form of 監

It is a variant of 監, meaning “inspect” or “oversee.” The older character 監 appears in Shang oracle-bone writing around 1250 BCE: divination questions were carved on animal bones. Its early form pictures a person examining a reflection in a water basin. Water served as a mirror before bronze mirrors were common; the few early examples leave the exact use uncertain.

In Western Zhou bronze inscriptions, 監 names an official sent to supervise a region; later it also means inspection or management. Its mirror sense has the related form 鑑, which adds 金 (“metal”) for bronze. Japanese references map 𭾆 to 監, and Japan’s character database files this glyph in its official family-register set for names. Keep the exact form when a name or source uses it.