What 𮃲 means
It writes the Zhuang verb ndaem, “to plant.”
The same spoken form also belongs to a separate Zhuang word for “black”; that homophone does not change this character’s reading. In the 1989 Dictionary of Ancient Zhuang Characters, 𮃲 is listed among the spellings for the planting verb.
Why does 𮃲 look like a Chinese character?
It comes from Sawndip, a Chinese-derived way to write Zhuang.
Sawndip writers borrowed Chinese characters and built others from their parts to represent Zhuang words. Evidence for the wider script reaches at least a 682 stone inscription in Guangxi; in a 1175 account, writer Fan Chengda describes such characters in legal papers and contracts. Standard Zhuang orthography uses a Latin-based alphabet.
Who writes 𮃲
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𮃲 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 𮃲
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- sawndip · old zhuang · ancient zhuang · zhuang character · zhuang writing · ndaem
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𮃲\2E0F2Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.